Subtracting Decimal Word Problems

Andrew had $15.80 and he spent $7.25 on hot chips. How much money does he have left?

• $8.55

• $12.35

• $9.80

• $7.55

Ayana's store had 150.75 kg of Cocopuffs and sold 75.5 kg. How much is left in the store?

• 76.25 kg

• 74.75 kg

• 75.25 kg

• 75.5 kg

Ms. Kingery's fish tank was filled with 35.25 liters of water. After using 12.5 liters, how much water is left in her tank?

• 10.25 liters

• 23.75 liters

• 22.75 liters

• 15.5 liters

Emily's store had 298.568 kg of rat food and received a shipment of 1,009.45 kg. How much rat food does Emily's store have now?

• 1308.018 kg

• 1309.016 kg

• 1208.018 kg

• 1480.017 kg

Enrique and Adrian are going on a road trip to the Grand Canyon. They traveled 97.801 miles on Monday to Sedona and 112.98 miles on Tuesday to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. How much farther did they travel on Tuesday?

Raymundo and Dillan's Croc charm company earned $1,098,345.89 on Monday and $756,345.24 on Tuesday. How much more did they earn on Monday?

Emely's famous pumpkin pie requires 2.75 cups of flour and 1.5 cups of sugar. How much more flour is needed than sugar?

Jayden is coding a new video game, he is currently using 189,673.98705 megabytes of data. Last night he made some edits to the code to make his players have more actions. His game now uses 3,459,876.785609 megabytes of data. What is the difference between his data usage?

Robert had $27.93. He spent some of his money at the pet store. When he got home he had $9.17. How much money did he spend at the pet store?

• $18.73

• $22.84

• $18.76

• $37.10

A jeweler had a piece of silver that weighed 196.54 grams. She used 98.6 grams to make some jewelry. How many grams of silver did she have left?

• 97.04 grams

• 97.94 grams

• 98.94 grams

• 102.08 grams