Answer
negative four hundred ninety five thousandths
Work Step by Step
-0.495
"-" indicates the number is a negative number.
The smallest decimal position is the thousandths position. The decimal part of the number is written as its whole number equivalent followed by "thousandths".
If 495 were a whole number, 4 is in the hundreds position, 9 is in the tens position and 5 is in the ones position.
