Question

Convert the following decimals into like decimals :$24.890,44.5,32.6890$ .

Answer 1

Like Decimals :

• The decimals that have the same number of decimal places are called like decimals.

Unlike Decimals :

• The decimals that have the different number of decimal places are called unlike decimals .

Converting Unlike Decimals into Like Decimals :

• Unlike decimals can be converted to like decimals by adding one or more zeros to the extreme right of each decimal number to have equal number of digits in the decimal part or by finding their equivalent decimals.

The numbers $24.890,44.5,32.6890$ have the greatest number of decimal places , that is , 4 .Therefore , every other decimal number should be converted to have 4 decimal places .

We write $24.890\mathrm{as}24.8900,44.5\mathrm{as}44.5000$ .

Thus , the set of like decimals is $24.8900,44.5000,32.6890$ .