Write Twenty Three Hundredths As A Decimal. You can think of a decimal as a part of a whole number. Let me do it all in different colors.
To the right of the decimal point, put three decimal places for thousandths. And that is a Decimal Number! When writing a mixed number as a decimal, the fractional part must be.
Instead of three point two three, or three and twenty three-hundredths, we'll say three.
Ignore the decimal point and read the number as a whole number; then say the decimal unit where the last digit falls.
Do not try to study this lesson before getting a good and solid understanding of how to read and write whole numbers. When we write a number, the place value of such decimal starts from tenths place reason being the theory of denominator. A decimal is another way to write a fraction.