Calculating Total Travel Expenses

Standard Procedure for Manual Expense Reconciliation

Add: $23.5 + 41.38$

When setting up the addition problem $23.5 + 41.38$, a placeholder zero is added to 23.5 to make it 23.50. Which digit in 41.38 aligns vertically with this placeholder zero?

To add $23.5 + 41.38$, first write 23.5 as 23.50. Which whole-number addition matches this step?

0.5 is equal to 0.50.

Put these steps in order to find $23.5 + 41.38$.

Match each step for adding $23.5 + 41.38$ with what it does.

To align decimal places with 41.38, rewrite 23.5 as _____.

You are adding $23.5 + 41.38$. Since 41.38 has two decimal digits and 23.5 has only one, you place a zero after the $5$ in 23.5 before adding. What does 23.5 become, and what is the sum?