Someone help please with simple subtraction!

[Keepon123]

£5.00
-£2.65
-£0.17


Can't for the life of me figure out how you're meant to do it the correct way with carrying tens etc!!!
Feel so stupid!
TIA

[blueemerald]

You can't take away two separate numbers at the same time if you see what I mean. Either take one away then the other or add the two numbers to be taken away together and take that away from the original.

[winchester1]

Id add the two lower figures first so
2.65
0.17
2.82

Then
5.00

• 2.82

You cant minus 2,from zero so you cross the five out and make it a.four and carry the ten over, you then cross the ten put make it a nine and carry the ten over (always going right).

[winchester1]

Sorry posted to soon

You then have
4.9(10)

• 2.82

So working right to left the columns are 10-2
9-8
4-2

Giving
2.18

Dies that make sense?

[Keepon123]

Doh! Perfect ladies
Had figured out how to do it by adding the 2 numbers to be subtracted together first then subtracting (as you have suggested) but didn't realise you couldn't take 2 separate numbers at the same time!never have guessed I got a* at GCSE level maths...

[Keepon123]

Thank you