Question

in a basketball tournament, dimitri averaged 12.375 rebounds per game. what is 12.375 written in expanded form? how is it written with number names?

Explanation:

Step1: Identify place - values

The number 12.375 has 1 in the tens place, 2 in the units place, 3 in the tenths place, 7 in the hundredths place, and 5 in the thousandths place.

Step2: Write in expanded form

$12.375=1\times10 + 2\times1+3\times\frac{1}{10}+7\times\frac{1}{100}+5\times\frac{1}{1000}$

Step3: Write with number names

Twelve and three hundred seventy - five thousandths

Answer:

Expanded form: $1\times10 + 2\times1+3\times\frac{1}{10}+7\times\frac{1}{100}+5\times\frac{1}{1000}$; Number names: Twelve and three hundred seventy - five thousandths