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No. It is read as "zero point three" or "point three"
1.3 is read as 'one point three'.
twelve hundredths
the decimal point
.54 is bigger than .51. When you read a decimal, you read it from left to right, the biggest decimal number being the one closest to the decimal point.
No. It is read as "zero point three" or "point three"
0.110 is read as "ten thousandths".
1.3 is read as 'one point three'.
twelve hundredths
point two tenths
the decimal point
.54 is bigger than .51. When you read a decimal, you read it from left to right, the biggest decimal number being the one closest to the decimal point.
3.45 is pronounced "Three and Forty Five hundredths. A decimal is considered "and" when read like this
In words, you can read that as "zero point one five".
0.2415 is read as " zero point two four one five". This is so because after decimal point, we read the individual numbers, not the number as a whole.
It separates the numbers
read the decimal as you are supposed to Don't read 0.45 as point 45 read as 45 hundredths this tells you what fraction to write, 45 / 100 and then reduce it to lowest terms, 9 / 20