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WHAT ARE DECIMALS?

A decimal number is a number with a decimal point in it, like these:
    1.5      .6     3.14
The number to the left of the decimal is an ordinary whole number. The first number to the right of the decimal is the number of tenths (1/10's). The second is the number of hundredths (1/100's) and so on. So, for the number 1.5,


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