Adding Decimals — Theory & Examples

How much milk?

This morning, you are making some yummy cookies. "Two cups of flour..." You read from the recipe as you pour the flour into a big bowl. "... eggs, and $6$ ounces of milk." The mixture seems a bit dry, so you add $59.2$ milliliters of milk before dripping the dough onto the iron plate. When the cookies are ready, they taste perfect!

You want to jot down the ingredients in your secret cookbook. But how much milk did you just use? $6$ ounces is about $177.44$ mL, and then you add another $59.2$ mL.