Decimal place value
The question
What is the 8 worth in 52.58?
number:52.58
number:52.58
number:52.58
8→0.08
- After the point the places are tenths, hundredths, thousandths — each ten times smaller than the last. There is no "oneths".
- Count in from the point: the 8 sits in the hundredths.
- Its value is what it is worth in that place: 8 in the hundredths is 0.08.
How it works.
- 01
After the point the places are tenths, hundredths, thousandths — each ten times smaller than the last. There is no "oneths".
- 02
Count in from the point: the 8 sits in the hundredths.
- 03
Its value is what it is worth in that place: 8 in the hundredths is 0.08.