a decimal
3
.03
.03
It is three hundredths.
.03
.04 and.03
Decimal to Percent.DP rule3%
To read the decimal 8.79, you read it eight and seventy-nine hundredths because after the decimal, there are two place values. The first is tenths and the second is hundredths. Since the last number, 9, is in the hundredth place, the whole decimal would be read as a hundredth.
0.0303030303030303..... with the 03 recuring
.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.
0.110 is read as "ten thousandths".