Basic College Mathematics (9th Edition)

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Chapter 4 - Decimals - 4.1 Reading and Writing Decimal Numbers - 4.1 Exercises - Page 271: 38

Answer

'two tenths'

Work Step by Step

The decimal .2 is written in fraction form as $.2=2\div10=\frac{2}{10}$. Therefore, we can read this decimal as 'two tenths.'
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