document.write( "Question 392271: order decimals from least to greatest
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order decimals from least to greatest
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document.write( "First annex zeros on the right to make them all have as many decimals places as\r\n" );
document.write( "the one with the most number of decimal places:\r\n" );
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document.write( "-34.2500\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2510\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2050\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2519\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then remember how to tell whether one signed number is HIGHER or\r\n" );
document.write( "LOWER than another.  Ask yourself this question:  If they represented\r\n" );
document.write( "degrees Fahrenheit, which would be the LOWER temperature and which would be a\r\n" );
document.write( "HIGHER temperature?   A LOWER temperature is represented by a LOWER number\r\n" );
document.write( "and a HIGHER temperature is represented by a HIGHER number. So think of\r\n" );
document.write( "them as if they were\r\n" );
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document.write( "-34.2500°F\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2510°F\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2050°F\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2519°F\r\n" );
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document.write( "The lowest (coldest) temperature of the four would be -34.2519°F, then\r\n" );
document.write( "-34.2510°F, then -34.2500°F, and the highest temperature of the four would \r\n" );
document.write( "be -34.2050°F,\r\n" );
document.write( "so\r\n" );
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document.write( "-34.2519 < -34.251 < -34.25 < -34.205\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin
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