Adding And Subtracting Money Amounts

Amounts of money may be written in several different ways. Cents may be written with the sen sign and ringgit can be written with the ringgit sign (RM). Adding and subtracting money that is expressed in these forms just involves adding or subtracting the amounts and placing the proper sign on the answer.

Often money is written as a decimal with ringgit to the left of the decimal point and sen to the right of the decimal point. Twenty-three ringgit and eighty-seven cents is written RM23.87.

Decimal money amounts are added or subtracted the same way that decimals are added or subtracted. Remember to put the RM sign before the answer.
Adding and subtracting Decimals is just like adding or subtracting other numbers.
Always line up the decimal points when adding or subtracting decimals.
Remember to put the decimal point in the proper place in your answer.

* When adding or subtracting money, always remember that we must convert all money amount to the same type first.

Example 1:  

[ RM5 + 65 sen + RM8.45 ]

RM5      = RM5.00
65 sen    = RM0.65
RM8.45 = still the same

Answer : RM  5.00
              RM  0.65
            +RM  8.45
              RM14.10

Example 2:

[ RM7.80 - 95 sen - RM3 ]

RM7.80      = RM7.80
95 sen         = RM0.95
RM3           = RM3.00

Answer : RM  7.80             RM 6.85
            - RM  0.95          - RM 3.00
              RM  6.85             RM 3.85