Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Decimal Place Value

13-3

Write the place of the red digit.

Then write its value.

1. 
   
   
   
   2. 31 2. 0 .49 3. 62. 75 4. 11.3 8 5. 129 .04
   
   
   
   


2. 2 1.59 7. 5.0 4 8. 30. 03 9. 25.1 5 10. 53.9 6


3. 4.1 0 12. 8. 56 13. 50 9.88 14. 9. 14 15. 18.0 3

The value of a digit in a decimal

depends on its place in the decimal.

Look at the decimals

in the place-value chart.

The value of the digit 9 in each decimal is:

9 ones, or 9.

9 tenths, or 0.9

9 tenths, or 0.9

9 hundredths, or 0.09

9 hundredths, or 0.09

Yo u can write decimals in standard form

or in expanded form.

Standard Form Expanded Form

24.5 20 
 4 
0.5

3.60 3 
0.6

961.04 900 
 60 
 1 
0.04

87.37 80 
 7 
0.3 
0.07

9 0

TenthsHundredths

0 9

0

1

2 9 0

01 2 0 9

2 9

HundredsTensOnes

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