Question

When doing decimals, what does a dot over a number mean? For example, take 24.671, but theres a small dot over the numbers 6 and 1. What do I do and what does it mean?

Answer 1

Explanation:

The dot is called a decimal point. It is also called the decimal separator. It separates whole numbers from fractional numbers.

In this example;

24.671

The numbers before the point, 24 is the whole number

The numbers after the point, 671 are the fractional portion of the number. They represent 6 tenths, 7 hundredths and 1 thousandths.

Also, the number of digits after the point tells you how many decimal place the number is in. In this example the number of decimal places is 3.