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Course: 4th grade (Philippines) > Unit 2
Lesson 11: Rounding, comparing, and arranging decimal numbers- Worked example: Rounding decimals to nearest tenth
- Rounding decimals on the number line
- Round decimals
- Rounding decimals word problems
- Comparing decimals visually
- Comparing decimal numbers on a number line
- Compare decimals visually
- Comparing decimals (tenths and hundredths)
- Compare decimals (tenths and hundredths)
- Comparing decimals word problems
- Ordering decimals
- Ordering decimals 1
- Ordering decimals through thousandths
- Order decimals
- Order decimals and fractions in different forms
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Comparing decimals (tenths and hundredths)
Sal compares decimals like 0.7 and 0.09 with greater and less than symbols.
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- hey how does it make a hundredth and tenth and the hundredth is smaller but it is in the hundrethes(14 votes)
- The hundredth has a -th at the end (Idk why the -th makes it smaller). The order (simplified) is hundred -> tens -> ones -> tenth -> hundreth. It's kind of in a reverse order.
I hope it helps (sorry if it's a bit confusing).(10 votes)
- is this the same 0.90 0.9(11 votes)
- Yes they are the same. This is because 0.90 is 90/100, 0.9 is 9/10, and 90/100 reduces to 9/10 after dividing top and bottom by 10.
Have a blessed, wonderful day!(7 votes)
- what is 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, x 5,789(5 votes)
- 578900000000000000000000000000(5 votes)
- Cool thank youfor showing me(2 votes)
- how far can you push the decimal point to the right(2 votes)
- To infinity and beyond!(1 vote)
- this is pretty easy just think about that
tenths are greater than hundrenths and ones are bigger than tenths(2 votes) - Which number would make this statement true?
3.3 > ___?(1 vote) - At3:13you said "Hundredths are much smaller than tenths" I want to know why hundredths are smaller than tenths aren't hundredth's bigger than tenths(1 vote)
- Hundredths and tenths and hundreds and tens are different.
Hundredths and tenths are decimals, while hundreds and tens are not. I didn't explain that well, did I?(1 vote)
- How do decimals become greater than or less than the other decimals at11:49?(1 vote)
- because tenths have a larger value than hundredths, and there are 7 tenths in 0.7 and 0 tenths in 0.09, so 0.7 is larger than 0.09.(1 vote)
- I am stuck what do i do(1 vote)
Video transcript
- Let's compare the number
0.7 to the number 0.09. And there's a bunch of ways to do this, but the way that I'm going to tackle it is I'm gonna start looking
at each of the digits, starting with the leftmost digit. And so we can start right over here in the ones place. You always want to compare ones place to ones place, so for example if we compare these two numbers, they both have zero ones. So the ones place doesn't tell us much. So now let's go one
place value to the right. Let's go to the tenths place. This number has seven tenths, while this number has zero tenths. That by itself tells us that
this is the larger number. We would put an inequality
symbol right over here. We wanna open it up to the larger number, where it points to the smaller number. So this says 0.7 is greater than 0.09. Now you might be tempted
to say oh wait, wait. Look, but if we went one
more digit to the right you have nine hundredths here, and you have no hundredths over here. We could write a zero over here, and you'd say well look, you have no hundredths over here. But the nine hundredths don't matter. Remember, even if you had 10 hundredths, that's the same thing as one tenth. So it doesn't matter that nine is somehow greater than seven. What matters is it's in
a place to the right. Even if you increased by
another hundredth here you'd only get to one tenth. This thing over here has seven tenths. Let's do another one of these. Let's say we wanted to compare, let's say we wanted to compare 0.29, let's say I wanna compare that to 0.31. Now this one you might say is a little bit more straightforward, depending on how you think about it. If you say hey, this is 29 hundredths, this is 31 hundredths, we have more hundredths
on the right-hand side. So let me open my inequality
to the larger value and I would say 0.29, or 29 hundredths is less than 31 hundredths. Another way you could have done this is you could have looked
in the ones place, say okay, they both have zero ones, but then you look in the tenths place, say this only has two tenths, while this has three tenths. I shouldn't have to keep looking at the digits to the right of that. I can just compare this two tenths to the three tenths. Three tenths is larger, and so I would say that 29 hundredths is
less than 31 hundredths. Let's do one more, just for fun. Let's compare, let's compare 0.6 to, I'll do them in the same color. 0.06. Which of these is the larger number? Well we do the same thing
that we've been doing. You can first go to the ones place. Say okay, this has no
ones, this has no ones. Okay that doesn't tell us much. Then the tenths place. This has six tenths, this has zero tenths. So this number is going to be larger. It has more tenths. It doesn't matter who has more hundredths. Hundredths are much smaller than tenths. They're a tenth of the size of a tenth. So this has six tenths,
this has zero tenths. So this number is larger. 0.6 is greater than 0.06. It's actually ten times greater but we can talk about
that in other videos.