document.write( "Question 1076383: write 2 6/100 as a decimal \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #691026 by Edwin McCravy(20060) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "The other tutor thought you meant  \r\n" );
document.write( "I think you mean the mixed number-fraction \r\n" );
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document.write( "Two and six hundredths.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If so, write 2 and then a decimal, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   2.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The first digit after the decimal tells how many\r\n" );
document.write( "tenths you have.  But since you have no tenths, \r\n" );
document.write( "only hundredths, you put a 0 as the first digit\r\n" );
document.write( "after the decimal, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   2.0\r\n" );
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document.write( "That 0 shows you have no tenths.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now, the second digit after the decimal tells how many\r\n" );
document.write( "hundredths you have.  And that's what you have 6 of.  \r\n" );
document.write( "You have 6 hundredths, so you put a 6 after the 0 which\r\n" );
document.write( "you put for the tenths, and now you have this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   2.06    <--final answer\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the same as \r\n" );
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document.write( "They are both read \"Two and six hundredths\".\r\n" );
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