SOLUTION: Is 0.70 greater than 0.7 or they equal?
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Question 1021529: Is 0.70 greater than 0.7 or they equal?
Found 2 solutions by FrankM, josmiceli:
Answer by FrankM(1040) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.7 is the same as .70 or .700, they are equal.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
They are equal, but the in the hundreds
place means that you actually measured it to
that degree of accuaracy. You could have seen in
one case that it was . The next time
you made a measurement, it was .
Since you could not be sure of the thousandth place,
you said it was .
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In the case of , you are only sure about the
tenths place, and are not sure of the hundredths place.
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But in any calculations, they are treated as equal
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