Practice Test 5

A student claims: “$4.019$ is greater than $4.101$ because $19$ is greater than $101$.” Decimals are compared place by place (ones, tenths, hundredths, thousandths). Which claim about the decimals is incorrect?

A weather station recorded $12.306$ cm of rain on Monday and $12.36$ cm on Tuesday. Align the decimals by writing $12.36$ as $12.360$, then compare place by place. Which comparison symbol makes the statement true?

$12.306\ _\ _\ _\ 12.36$