If you laid ten pennies on a table, and removed one penny to one side. That one penny is a tenth. The ten pennies are the whole, while each individual penny is one tenth. Therefore, the difference must be 10 - 1 = 9 (or nine tenths).
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One tenth of one hundred is ten.
Divide by ten. One tenth of 450 = 45.
1/10 = 10/100
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They are the values of the different columns in the place value system we use. Each column is ten times bigger than the column to its right and ten times smaller than the column to its left. The whole (or units or ones) is ten times bigger than one tenth; The hundred is one hundred (or ten times ten) times bigger than one whole, making it one thousand (ten times ten times ten) bigger than one tenth.