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Tenths Place in Decimals

The first place after the decimal point is tenths place which represents how many tenths are there in a number.

Let us take a plane sheet which represents one whole. Now, divide the sheet into ten equal parts. Each part represents one tenth of the whole. 

Tenth Place in Decimals

It is written as 110. In the decimal form it is written as 0.1, where the whole number part is zero and the fractional part is 110

It is read as zero pint one. So, a decimal (point) is placed between the whole number and the fractional number. All the numerals after the decimal shows that it is less than a whole.

The number before decimal point is called the integral part or whole and the number after the decimal is called the decimal part. 


● Now let us color 3 strips of the tenths sheet. 

Represent Tenth Place in Decimals

The colored part is represented as 310. In the decimal form it is written as 0.3. It is read as zero point three.


● Look at the strip in figure. It is divided into ten equal parts and one part is shaded. The shaded part represents one tenth of the whole strip.

It is written as 110 0.1 and read as 'point one' or 'decimal one' or 'zero point one'.

One Tenth

Thus, the fraction, 110 called one-tenth and written as 0.1.


● Now look at the strip in figure

Seven-tenths

It is divided into ten equal parts and 7 parts are shaded. The shaded parts represent seven- tenths of the whole strip. It is written as 710 or 0.7 and is read as point seven or decimal seven.

Similarly, 210, 310, 410510610710810 and 910 are read as two-tenths, three-tenths, four-tenths, five-tenths, six-tenths, seven-tenths, eight-tenths and nine-tenths respectively and are denoted by 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9 respectively.

Similarly,

1110 = 11 tenths = 10 tenths + 1 tenth = 1 + 110 = 1 + 0.1 = 1.1,

1210 = 12 tenths = 10 tenths + 2 tenths = 1 + 210 = 1 + 0.2 = 1.2,

2010 = 20 tenths = 10 tenths + 10 tenths = 1 + 1 = 2,

2510 = 25 tenths = 20 tenths + 5 tenths = 2 + 0.5 = 2.5


From the above discussion, we observe that a fraction in the form number10 is written as a decimal obtained by putting decimal point to the left of the right-most digit.

75910 = 75.9,

580510 = 580.5,

4300110 = 4300.1, etc

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