Question

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. What number was on the place value chart to begin with

Answer 1

Answer: When you divide by 100 you are essentially moving the decimal of the number two places to the left. In undoing this you would have to move the decimal of the number two places to the right.

28.003 would then turn into 2,800.3

Explanation:

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