Calculate Total: Adding £10.30 and £17.10 in Shopping Context

Question

Chris buys apples costing $\pounds10.30$ and grapes that cost $\pounds17.10$ .

How much does Chris pay in total?

00:10 Let's solve this problem together.

00:14 We'll use long addition to figure it out, step by step.

00:24 Remember, each time we add, take your time to calculate, and write it down.

00:38 Great job! And that's how we solve this problem.

To work out how much Chris pays in total, we need to add the cost of the apples to the cost of the grapes as follows:

$10.3\\+17.1$

This gives us the answer:

$27.4$

$\pounds27.40$