Question

How do you draw a model that shows decimal 1.7

Answer 1

draw two square that present the 1 and the 7 tenth you leave the first one as a whole that is 1.7 the 1 and for the second one you divide into 10 and shade 7 of them that represent the 7

Answer 2

We can model the decimal number 1.7 by drawing two squares and divide each of the two squares into 10 equal parts.

Then we start shading the square such that the first square is fully shaded and in the second square we shade 7 out of the 10 parts such that 0.7 of the figure is shaded.

Hence, the total portion of the figures that are shaded are:

1+0.7=1.7