Samuel has three buckets in his house to catch leaking water from the ceiling. The first bucket has 3.25 pints of water in it. The second bucket has 6.1 pints

Question

The rest of the question: Samuel has three buckets in his house to catch leaking water from the ceiling. The first bucket has 3.25 pints of water in it. The second bucket has 6.1 pints of water in it. The third bucket has 2.5 pints of water in it. What is the total amount of water in the three buckets?

Answer 1

Be sure to line up the decimal points in order to add numbers in the correct positions.

 

    3.25

    6.10     [note: 0 may be added at the end]

    2.50     [note: 0 may be added at the end]

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   11.85 pints

Answer 2

3.25 + 6.1 + 2.5 = 11.85 pints