Swimming

EXAMPLE 2 Writing Decimals

A person timing your swim meet says your time was twenty-eight and six tenths seconds. Write your time as a decimal.

Swimming

EXAMPLE 2 Writing Decimals

A person timing your swim meet says your time was twenty-eight and six tenths seconds. Write your time as a decimal.

twenty-eight and six tenths

Swimming

EXAMPLE 2 Writing Decimals

A person timing your swim meet says your time was twenty-eight and six tenths seconds. Write your time as a decimal.

twenty-eight and six tenths

Swimming

EXAMPLE 2 Writing Decimals

A person timing your swim meet says your time was twenty-eight and six tenths seconds. Write your time as a decimal.

twenty-eight and six tenths

seconds28.6

Auto racing

EXAMPLE 3

Reading Decimals

Buddy Rice won the 2004 Indianapolis 500. His best leading lap time was 41.6913 seconds. Write his time in words.

Auto racing

EXAMPLE 3

41.6913

Reading Decimals

Buddy Rice won the 2004 Indianapolis 500. His best leading lap time was 41.6913 seconds. Write his time in words.

Auto racing

EXAMPLE 3

41.6913

forty-one and six thousand nine hundred thirteen ten-thousandths seconds

Reading Decimals

Buddy Rice won the 2004 Indianapolis 500. His best leading lap time was 41.6913 seconds. Write his time in words.

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

3. Write twenty-five and seven hundred-thousandths as a decimal.

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

3. Write twenty-five and seven hundred-thousandths as a decimal.

25.0007

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

4. Write 5.029 in words.

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

4. Write 5.029 in words.

five and twenty-nine thousandths

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

5. Write 5.068 in words.

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

5. Write 5.068 in words.

five and sixty-eight thousandths

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

6. Write 76.25 in words.

GUIDED PRACTICE for Example 2 and 3

6. Write 76.25 in words.

Seven six and twenty-five hundredths