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(need done quickly) A student worte the distanceof Proxima Centauri from Earth as "four hundred and twenty-two hundredths." Explain the error. Write the correct answer. [Proxima Centauri Distance: 4.22]
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A student worte the distanceof Proxima Centauri from Earth as "four hundred and twenty-two hundredths." Explain the error. Write the correct answer.
[Proxima Centauri Distance: 4.22]

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The error is that he probably forgot the decimal point thus causing him to say '"hundred" instead of "and" for the decimal point.
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