Question

What is the whole number portion of the decimal? (5.024) What is the decimal portion of the decimal? (176.261)

Answer 1

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The whole number portion of a decimal number are those digits to the left of the decimal place. Example: In the number 23.65, the whole number portion is 23. In the number 0.024, the whole number portion is 0.

Answer 2

The whole number portion is always the number to the left of the decimal. In this case it is 5. You have to be careful what you say if you are working in scientific notation.

For your second question 0.261 is the decimal portion. If the only part present was 0.261, then 0 is the whole number portion, believe it or not. Nice question. You can learn a lot from it.