Take care when reading the values of decimal numbers. 4.2 means 4 and 2 tenths. 4.20 means 4 and 2 tenths and 0 one-hundredths. The last zero does not need to be there. 4.02 means 4 and 0 tenths ...

frac {5} {100}\) can be represented with 0.01 decimal counters. You will need 5 of these to represent the 5 hundredths. Let’s put these counters into a place value chart to help us read this as ...