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Answer the following questions about place value. Consider the decimal number: 4.390762 a. What is the place value of the digit $6 ?$ b. Which digit tells the number of thousandths? c. Which digit tells the number of ten-thousandths? d. What is the place value of the digit $4 ?$

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Description: Answer the following questions about place value. Consider the decimal number: 4.390762 a. What is the place value of the digit 6 ? b. Which digit tells the number of thousandths? c. Which digit tells the number of ten-thousandths? d. What is the place value of the digit 4 ?

   Answer the following questions about place value.
Consider the decimal number: 4.390762
a. What is the place value of the digit $6 ?$
b. Which digit tells the number of thousandths?
c. Which digit tells the number of ten-thousandths?
d. What is the place value of the digit $4 ?$

Prealgebra

Alan S. Tussy, R.… 4th Edition

Chapter 5, Problem 20

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Starting from the decimal point, the first digit to the right is in the tenths place, the second is in the hundredths place, the third is in the thousandths place, the fourth is in the ten-thousandths place, the fifth is in the hundred-thousandths place, and the Show more…

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Answer the following questions about place value. Consider the decimal number: 4.390762 a. What is the place value of the digit $6 ?$ b. Which digit tells the number of thousandths? c. Which digit tells the number of ten-thousandths? d. What is the place value of the digit $4 ?$

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Key Concepts

Place Value

Place value is the concept that the value of a digit in a number depends on its position within that number. Each position represents a specific power of ten, which means a digit’s true value is determined not just by the digit itself but by its location in the overall number.

Decimal System

The decimal system, also known as the base?10 numeral system, is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is based on powers of ten, where each digit's position (whether to the left or right of the decimal point) represents a quantity that increases or decreases by a factor of ten.

Fractional Place Value

Fractional place value addresses the digits that appear to the right of the decimal point in a decimal number. Each of these positions represents a fraction of one, such as tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc., indicating increasingly smaller portions of a whole number as one moves further right from the decimal point.

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