What number is greater 0.09 or 0.5?

Answer 1

.5 is greater. Anything to the left of the decimal point is a whole number. Anything after is part of a number. A fraction can be used to show this.

I'll give an example to help you-

1.56

the 1 is in the ones spot. It is a whole number.

The 5 is in the tenths spot. If something was broken into ten peices, this would show 5 of those peices.

The 6 is in the hundredths spot. If something was broken into 100 peices, this would show 6 of them.

Don't you think that 5 out of ten is alot more than 6 out of 100? That is why anything in the tenths space is bigger than anything in the hundredths space.

So let's look at your original problem-

.09 or .5

Another way to look at it is like this -

0 or 5 which is bigger? 5.

All I did here was get rid of the decimal and pretend that the number before the decimal wasn't there, so it would look like this-

09 or 5

Next I got rid of any digits to the right of the longer number. Take off enough so that each

number has the same amount of digits. This would look like this-

0 or 5

which is bigger? 5

Then you know that the number 0.5 is bigger.

Answer 2

0.5

Answer 3

Hi.

It's 0.09.

Bye.

Answer 4

0.5

Answer 5

0.5

Answer 6

0.09