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Can't wrap my head around this problem. :-[

Can't wrap my head around this problem. :-[-example-1
User Tim Dierks
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D. Five tenths.

It's definitely not A. five ones, or C. five tens, since the 5 is behind the decimal. It's not B. five hundredths either, because that would be the value behind 5 in the tenth place.

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The five is after the decimal point. The 10 in that form is tenths. It represents a number in the denominator. So you would write it as 5/10 and say it as 5 tenths.

The answer is D.

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