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Strong understanding of decimals place value!

As you study this lesson, you will discover that decimals place value is similar to place value of whole numbers.



Study the following diagram carefully. You should see some similarity with place value for whole numbers

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The place value for 4 is the tenths.

Note that 1 tenth = 0.1 or 1/10, so 4 tenths means 4 × .1 or 0.4

Note also that the place value for 2 is the thousandths

1 thousandth = 0.001 or 1/1000, so 2 thousandths = 2 × 0.001 = 0.002

Examples:

Find the name of the place for each underlined digit

756.45

4 is in the tenths place

6214.265

5 is in the thousandths place

32564.10477

0 is in the hundredths place




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