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They are, but sometimes a teacher/ program is looking for a specific decimal place to round too, or there can be a significant figure where another number in the problem can have two decimal places requiring two decimals in the answer meaning 0.20 can be a better answer than 0.2

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Q: Why are 0.2 and 0.20 not equivalent?
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