Question

Charlie decided to go out and buy some chocolates. He finds out that the cost of four different chocolates are $\$1.56,\$1.45,\$1.62,$ and $\$1.75$. He's on the lookout for the cheapest chocolate available. The cost of the least expensive chocolate is $

Answer 1

To compare the decimal numbers, we align the decimal points. Ones . Tenths Hundredths

1		5	6
1	.	4	5
1	.	6	2
1	.	7	5

Here, digits in Ones column are identical. On comparing digits in the Tenths column, 4 is the smallest number. Hence, cost of the cheapest chocolate is $\$1.45$.