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Decimal Subtraction Practice

Help a community garden track its supplies and spending. Line up decimal points, add zeros when needed, and show your thinking. Money amounts are in US dollars.

Warm-Up: Garden Supplies

Subtract carefully. Use the number lines to think about place value.

1.A seed packet weighs 7.000 ounces. The empty packet weighs 0.004 ounce. How much do the seeds weigh?
6.996.9926.9946.9987
2.The garden has 9.000 pounds of potting soil. Volunteers use 0.007 pound to fill a small pot. How many pounds remain?
8.998.9918.9928.9948.9958.9968.9978.9988.9999

Line Up and Subtract

Write each difference. Remember that whole numbers can be written with trailing zeros.

3.A watering can holds 4.000 liters. It pours out 0.009 liter. How much water is left?
4.Subtract 3.475 from 8.2. Show how you align the decimal points.
5.Find 15.06 − 7.892. Add zeros to make the place values easier to compare.
6.Choose the correct difference for 12.5 − 3.86.
  • 8.64
  • 8.74
  • 9.36
  • 16.36

Garden-Shop Checkout

Solve the money problems. Write each answer with a dollar sign and two decimal places.

7.A garden shop purchase costs $12.00. You pay with a $20 bill. How much change should you receive?
8.A packet of bulbs costs $6.75 and a small trowel costs $8.49. You have $20.00. How much money will remain after both purchases?
9.A bag of compost weighs 25.000 pounds. After some is used, it weighs 18.675 pounds. How many pounds of compost were used?
10.A volunteer says 10.000 − 2.45 = 8.45. Is the volunteer correct? Explain what went wrong or why the answer is correct.
11.Challenge: A water tank contains 12.5 gallons. The garden uses 3.875 gallons in the morning and 2.96 gallons in the afternoon. How many gallons remain? Show your subtraction steps.

3 printable pages

  • Decimal Subtraction Practice, page 1 of 3: Warm-Up: Garden Supplies, Line Up and Subtract

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  • Decimal Subtraction Practice, page 2 of 3: Garden-Shop Checkout

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  • Decimal Subtraction Practice, page 3 of 3: 10. A volunteer says 10.000 − 2.45 = 8.45. Is the volunteer correct? Explain what went…

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