Question

Write the place value of $2$ in the following number: $63.352$ ?

Answer 1

Hint: One decimal place to the decimal point is the one's place of the value. One place to the right of the decimal place is the tenth place. Second place to the right of the decimal place is the hundreds place in the given value and so on. Keep your eye to see where the asked number is.

Complete step-by-step solution:
In this problem the given number this $63.352$
We have to find the place value of two in the given number.
When we write the numbers, the position or place of each digit is important.
In the given problem, the decimal point is given.
Tens are ten times bigger than ones.
Hundreds are ten times bigger than tens.
At the left decimal every place gets ten times bigger value.
At the right decimal every place gets ten times smaller value.
In the given value we have to find the place value of two.
The number two is right side to the decimal place.
One place to decimal to the right is tenth.
Second place to decimal to the right is hundreds
Third place to decimal to the right is thousands.
In this problem we have two in third places on the right side of decimals.
Therefore the place value of two is thousands.

Note: The word decimal really means based on ten. From Latin decimal a tenth part. Decimals a fraction shown as a decimal point followed by the number of tenths , hundreds ,thousands, etc., in decimal numbers the first value after the decimal point is tenths, second value after the decimal point is hundreds .Place value of a digit depends upon the position of a digit number.