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the five is in the hundreths place because behind the decimal is tenths hundreths thousandths and so on
You can use the fact that a place value of a digit depends on which place it sits.
The place value of 5 in given number is 0.05
How to identify the place value of a digit in a number?
The place values on left of decimal point start as ones, tens, hundreds, and so on.
The place value on right of decimal point starts from point and goes to right as tenths, hundreths and so on
The tens means multiply by 10
The tenth means tenth part of that digit which is that digit divided by 10
How to identify the place value of 5 in 684.95?
After decimal point, we have
On tenth place, 9 is sitting
On hundredth place, 5 is sitting.
Thus, place value of 5 is 5 divided by 100 = [tex]\dfrac{5}{100} = 0.05[/tex]
You can just make other digits 0 too to find place value faster.
For example, place value of 6 in 684.95 is 600.00 = 600 (since zeroes at the rightmost side after the decimal point are not significant)
Thus,
The place value of 5 in given number is 0.05
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