How do you order 6.037, 6.37, 6.5, 6.3772 from least to greatest?
2 Answers
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
Because the 1's digit is the same for all the numbers we next look at the digit in the 10ths position. The number with the smallest value in the 10ths position is 6.037 so it is first in order.
The number with the largest digit in the 10ths position is 6.5 so it is last in order:
We are left with 6.37 and 6.3772. We can rewrite 6.37 as: 6.3700
So we have 6.3700 and 6.3772
These to numbers have the same 1's digit, 10ths digit and 100ths digit. Therefore we look at the 1000ths digit. The first number has a 0 in this position which is smaller than the 7 in this position in the other number. Therefore the order is:
Explanation:
Write the number with the same number of decimal places first.
The most number of decimal places is
This makes comparing them much easier. Look at the units digits first: They are all
Look at the first decimal place next (tenths)
For the two remaining numbers - look at the second decimal place:
They are both
Now look at the third decimal place:
Now we can order the numbers from smallest to biggest:
Now you can write them as the original values.