Question

You have bundles of toothpicks you want to use these bundled toothpicks to represent a decimal.

List at least three decimals that you could use these bundles to represent and explain your answer in each case.

Answer 1

List at least three decimals that you could use these bundles to represent and explain:

Let us consider,

Number of toothpicks we have is $2152$

If the one toothpick is equal to $0.1$we can express the number of toothpicks as,

$2152=215.2$

If the one toothpick is equal to $0.01$ we can express the number of toothpicks as,

$2152=21.52$

If the one toothpick is equal to $0.001$ we can express the number of toothpicks as,

$2152=2.152$

Hence, The bundles of $2152$ are represented in three ways shown above.