Question

Can A Decimal with a 0 in front of the point be taken out and still have the same value?
Example: 08.75

Answer 1

Answer:

Mathematically, it’s irrelevant, but there’s a good reason for doing it or not doing it, and that’s that it indicates the number of digits of accuracy.

In engineering and science, you usually only know a number up to a certain number of digits. If you’ve looked at a book and it looks like it’s 18 cm tall, you would not say it looks like it’s 18.00 cm. But if you’ve measured it with a micrometer and found it to be 18 cm to the nearest one hundredth of a cm, than you should say it’s 18.00 cm tall.

Answer 2

Answer:

Yes it will have the same value. As in the case of the example if we take out the zero it will become 8.75. 08.75=8.75. But if we remove zero after the point and before a number example: 80.75, if we take out the zero these two numbers won’t be equal