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What is the value of 1 in the number 5,678.321?

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Answer: It represents 1 thousandth

This is because the digit 1 is in the thousandths place value.

Here is the expanded form of that number

5678.321 = 5000+600+70+8 + 0.3+0.02+0.001

The 0.001 represents 1 thousandth, it basically means 1 out of 1000 or 1/1000.

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