Question

Find the place value of $3$in $4.375$?

Answer 1

The place value of a digit in a number is a value that it holds to be at that place

$$\begin{gathered} 4.375=4+0.3+0.07+0.005 \\ 4.375=4+\frac{3}{10}+\frac{7}{100}+\frac{5}{1000} \end{gathered}$$

Hence , place value of $3$ in $4.375$is three tenths or $\frac{3}{10}.$