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Question
Which is greater?
1.5 or 1.50
Solution
1.5 or 1.50
We may find that both numbers have the same parts up to the tenth place. Here 1.5 have no digit at the hundredth place. It represents that this digit is 0, equal to the number at the hundredth place of 1.50.
∴ Both these numbers are equal
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