Question

Write each of the following decimals in words.
5.008

Answer 1

Hint: We are required to represent the given decimal number in the form of words. We assign each of these numbers a place value and name them accordingly. For the left-hand side, they are named according to their place value and then the decimal point is written as a point. The terms after the decimal number on the right-hand side are individually written according to its value at that position.

Complete step by step answer:
In order to solve this question, let us consider the given number required to be represented in words which is 5.008. As we can see, the left-hand side of the decimal point has only one digit 5, in its units place. Next, we have a decimal point and we specify this as a point itself. Then, we need to note an important point here. While specifying the digits to the right-hand side of the decimal point, we need to spell out each of the digits individually and not as a single number. For the above question, the terms after the decimal number are given by zero zero eight. If it is specified as a single number, it will be taken as just eight which is wrong.
Here, we are going to read the decimal number starting from the left-hand side to the right-hand side and this can be given as five point zero zero eight.
Hence, 5.008 in words can be given as five point zero zero eight.

Note: We need to note an important point here. When we specify the decimal digits after the point, we are supposed to write the value of each digit individually and not together as we do for the whole number. For example, 56 can be written as fifty-six but 0.56 should be written as zero point five six and not zero point fifty-six.