What similarities do whole numbers and comparing decimals?

Answer 1

If you are talking about comparing decimals, which are less than 1: Then you can compare the decimals by first making them the same length. You do that by adding zeros to the right of the number if necessary. Take for example you want to compare 0.06 and 0.5, so by adding zeros on the right, the value does not change. Look at 0.5, 5 tenths, which equals one half. you can make it 0.50 which is 50 hundredths, still equals one half. You can think of it as money if you want. 0.5 dollars (half dollar) is 50 cents: 0.50.

Once you have them the same length, you can compare them, just as you would whole numbers, so 0.50 is like fifty, and 0.06 is like six. Fifty is greater than six.