Question

Please help me explain how this is wrong

Answer 1

Jim is correct

Explanation:

Jim is correct because 8 hundreths as a decimal can be written as 0.08. 8 thousanths as a decimal is 0.008. We can see that even though thousandths seems bigger than hundreths, in decimals, the higher it seems, the lower it actually is(0.08>0.008)

Answer 2

Explanation:

Jim though this:eight thousandths looks like this .0008

Lou thought this:eight hundredths looks like this .008

So that means Jim Would have been correct in picking the Larger number.