What Is A Decimal?
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I wonder a decimal is a way of writing a number that is not whole a decimal point is a point or dot used to separate the whole part of the number from the fractional part of the number a decimal has numbers on two sides of it. The numbers on the left hand side of the decimal point are the whole part of the number and on the right side of the decimal point are the number of decimal places. For example, the number 8.75 would have two decimal places seven and five the decimal number 0.125 would have three decimal places.
One two, and five decimals are used to write a number that is not whole meaning decimal numbers are numbers that are in between two whole numbers. For example, 5.5 would be a decimal number as it is in between while the numbers 5 and 6 5.5 Life is less than six but greater than 5 a decimal number is the exact same as a fraction. It is just written in a different way. For example, 5.5 is the exact same as five and a half a fraction that is written as four tenths will be written in decimal form a 0.4 an easy way to learn decimal numbers is by imagining a hundred square grid if 20 small squares are colored in that is 20 over 100 as a fraction and as a decimal this number would be written as 0.2. We say 0.2 not 0.20 because decimals do not finish in zero.