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Standard Procedure for Manual Expense Reconciliation
An administrative supervisor is training a new hire on how to manually reconcile petty cash vouchers. The hire needs to add two specific amounts: $23.5 and $41.38. Describe the standard three-step procedure for adding these two decimal values. In your response, specifically explain how to align the numbers, what adjustment must be made to the number 23.5 to ensure place-value consistency, and where the decimal point is positioned in the final sum.
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Standard Procedure for Manual Expense Reconciliation
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When setting up the addition problem , 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 , 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 .
Match each step for adding with what it does.
To align decimal places with 41.38, rewrite 23.5 as _____.
You are adding . Since 41.38 has two decimal digits and 23.5 has only one, you place a zero after the in 23.5 before adding. What does 23.5 become, and what is the sum?