in words... 28.6-0.975. take away 1 from the 6 and make it five, carry it over to the zero in the hundredths place. Make that 10 a 9 and carry it over to the thousandths place and do 10-5 so in the answer, the thousandths place is 5. 9-7 in the hundredths place is 2 so your answer so far is __._25. take 1 away from 8 and that is now 7 so 15-9 is 6. So your answer so far is __.625. 27-0 is 27 so your answer is 27.625.
