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How do you list the decimals in order of least to greatest: 0.476, 0.486, 0.47?

Answer 1

See below.

The first step is to make sure that all the decimals have the same number of places, so in this case, #3#, since that is the highest number of places. Because #0.47# is only two decimal places, you must now add a #0# to make it #0.470#.

Now, you are left with the decimals #0.476, 0.486, and 0.470#. Normally, you would look at the tenths place to see what is the smallest and what is the greatest, but since the tenths place of all the decimals is #4#, you have to look at the hundredths place.

Since #7# comes before #8#, you know that #0.476# and #0.470# are smaller than #4.86#. But since their tenths place is the same, you must move onto the thousanths place of #0.476# and #0.470#.

Because #0# is before #6#, you now know the order of these decimals.

#0.47, 0.476, 0.486#

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Answer 2

Aurora Arias

To list the decimals in order of least to greatest, you arrange them as follows:

0.47, 0.476, 0.486

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.