How to properly read a decimal number

How to properly read a decimal number and identify the place values.

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Howto & Style

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• decimal
• decimals
• math
• arithmetic
• place
• values

[honeeyb417]

i don't get it :( maybe i'm just dumb.

can you help me how to read, 0.609

[RoadsideRon]

@honeeyb417 ...First you read the number part, 609 as six hundred nine, just as you would a regular number. Then, the place value is in thousandths, so you read the whole thing as, six hundred nine.....thousandths.

[Joilung]

how would you say .010? 10 hundredths?

[RoadsideRon]

@Joilung ....The number part is just ten, and the last place value here is thousandths. So to read this decimal number as it's written is 10...thousandths. That's the way it's presented here. The last zero in the number is unnecessary so you could drop that last zero to get .01 which is one.....hundredths and is the same value as the first number. The reason for the first number is a matter of accuracy. If you want more accuracy you use thousandths instead of hundredths.

[aanglero]

Thank you sir. I needed that lesson.

[crose55]

Thanks!



[2000sweetvip]

thank you so much



[realasicanget123]

@honeeyb417 you read it zero point six zero nine

[KNOTHEAD765]

U make it sound soooooo easy

[BlueSoda79]

YESSS thank you sooo much.I got the worst grade on this, and now I FINALY know how to do this!

[kcharly]

thank you so much...everything is clear now!!

[devilpuppy1969]

@Joilung ... No, remember that the zero is there in front of the 10 for a reason, it is taking up the tenths place... So the way it is read is, ten...thousanths.