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Explain how place value helps you add decimals

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so you have thousand hundreds tens and ones with decimals how I think about it is if its asking you for the tenths space then you know that youll put the decimal in between the tenths and hundreds

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When adding decimals, you must first line up all the decimal points in a column. Lining up the decimal points ensures that each digit is in the proper place-value position. You can then add digits in the same place-value position to find the sum.

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