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A student used his place value chart to show a number. After the teacher instructed him to divide his number by 100,the chart showed 28.003. Draw a picture of what the place value chart looked like at first.Explain how you decided what to draw on yourvplace value chart . Be sure to include reasoning about how the value of each digit was affected by the division

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EXPLANATION :

Note that dividing a number by 100 will move the decimal point 2 places from right to left.

Since the result of the number when divided by 100 is 28.003

Then the initial number should be 2800.3

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