Oh, dude, that's like 0.999. You know, you just take the number 999 and divide it by a thousand because, like, you're dealing with thousandths. So, it's just 0.999. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
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The idea for hundred-thousandths is that the last digit - the last of the three nines in this case - is in the fifth position after the decimal point.
To write 17 hundred thousandths in standard form, you first convert the fraction to a decimal. 17 hundred thousandths is equivalent to 0.017 in decimal form. In standard form, you express this decimal as 1.7 x 10^-2. This is because you move the decimal point two places to the right to convert the decimal to standard form.
To write 4 hundred thousandths in standard form, you first convert the fraction to a decimal. 4 hundred thousandths is equal to 0.004 in decimal form. In standard form, you express this decimal as 4 x 10^-3, where 10^-3 represents the thousandths place value.
30 hundred-thousandths as a decimal is 0.0003 or 0.00030
Seven and seven hundred twelve thousandths would be written as 7.712The "and" tells you where the decimal goes, "thousandths" tells you how many places there will be in the decimal part of your answer (3 decimal places for thousandths), and seven hundred twelve tells you how many thousandths there will be.
To write two hundred seventeen thousandths in decimal form, you need to place the decimal point after the digit 7 in the hundredths place. The number 217 in decimal form is 217. To represent thousandths, you add three zeros after the decimal point. Therefore, two hundred seventeen thousandths is written as 0.217.