I believe that you can take the standard deduction OR itemize.
So the total itemized deductions are 6200+1100 = 7300
even if you are supposed to subtract the standard from the itemized, that would be 7300-6350 = 950, not 1250.
Of course, I could be wrong. How did you get 1250?
Joseph’s standard deduction filing single is $6,350 for 2017. However, he paid $6,200 in mortgage interest and contributed $1,100 to charity.
What is the total of Joseph's itemized deductions?
The answer I got was 1,250.
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So what I did was 6,350-6200+1100
But you were correct the total itemized deductions was 7300.
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