Question

Write in decimal form. First one is done for you.
Two hundred twenty seven and seven tenths​

Answer 1

Answer:

As you can see, moving from the decimal point to the left is ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc. This is the “no th side,” which are the numbers greater than or equal to one. Moving from the decimal point to the right is tenths, hundredths, thousandths. This is the the “th side,” which are the numbers less than 1.

1, 3 5 7 . 9 2 4

no th side th side

The pattern going to the right or the left from the decimal point is the

same – but there are two big differences:

1. The place values to the right of the decimal point all end in “th”.

2. There is no such thing as “oneths.” From your work with fractions, you know that 5 and are the same.

Example

Problem

What is the place value of 8 in 4,279.386?

Decimal Numbers

no th side

th side

Thousands

Hundreds

Tens

Ones

Decimal point

Tenths

Hundredths

Thousandths

4,279.386

4

2

7

9

.

3

8

6

Write the number in a place-value chart. Read the value of the 8 from the chart.

Answer In the number 4,279.386, the 8 is in the hundredths place.

What is the place value of the 7 in 324.2671?

A) thousands

B) thousandths

C) hundreds

D) hundredths

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Reading Decimals

The easiest way to read a decimal number is to read the decimal fraction part as a fraction. (Don’t simplify the fraction though.) Suppose you have 0.4 grams of yogurt in a cup. You would say, “4 tenths of a gram of yogurt,” as the 4 is in the tenths place.

Note that the denominator of the fraction written in fraction form is always a power of ten, and the number of zeros in the denominator is the same as the number of decimal places to the right of the decimal point. See the examples in the table below for further guidance.