twenty-four point seventy-one
or
twenty-four and seventy-one hundredths
It is expressing a number in decimal form: that is, a form in which the place value of each digit is one tenth the place value of the digit to its left.
A single digit in a decimal representation can have a place value: an entire number cannot.
The word form for 1.19 is: one and nineteen hundredths.
decimal
A decimal number is simply a way of representing a number in such a way that the place value of each digit is ten times that of the digit to its right. A decimal representation does not require a decimal point.
It is expressing a number in decimal form: that is, a form in which the place value of each digit is one tenth the place value of the digit to its left.
The decimal form is a way of representing a number in which each place has a value that is ten times greater than the place to its right.
A single digit in a decimal representation can have a place value: an entire number cannot.
The word form for 1.19 is: one and nineteen hundredths.
A decimal form is a representation of a number in a way such that the place value of each digit is ten times that of the digit to its right. So 37 is a decimal form. As are 0.048 and 39.029
decimal
It is a representation of the number in a form such that the place value of the digit to the immediate left of the decimal point is ones (or units) and the place value of each digit is ten times that of the digit to its right.
150,000,000 A decimal form simply means that the place value of each digit is ten times that of the digit to its right.
It is 101. And since the place value of each digit is ten times the place value of the digit to its right, the number is in decimal form.
120 is already in decimal form. You do not need to have a decimal point for a number to be in decimal form. All that is required is that the place values go down by a factor of one-tenth every time you move one digit to the right. Also the digit to the left of the decimal point (or where the decimal point would have been) has a unit place value.
8 hours per day for 5 days per week = 40 hours per week. 40 is a number in decimal form. All that is meant by decimal form is that the place value of each digit is ten times the place value of the digit to its right.
Fourty-six dollars in decimal format is written as $46.00 or as $46. Decimal notation simply means that each digit in the number has a place value that is ten times as large as the place value of the digit to its right.