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If you slice a juice bar into 10 equal pieces and eat 3 of them, you just ate 310\frac{3}{10} of the bar.
Did you know you can write that exact same amount without using a fraction line?
How does our place value system show pieces that are smaller than one whole?

The Tenths Place

A decimal point is a dot that separates whole numbers on the left from fractional parts on the right.
The first position directly to the right of the dot is the tenths place, which counts how many tenths of a whole you have.
Because one tenth means 1 out of 10 equal parts, the fraction 110\frac{1}{10} is written as 0.10.1 in decimal form.
So if you have 6 tenths, 610\frac{6}{10} simply becomes 0.60.6.
What happens if we look at all the tenths together on a single number line?

Fractions and Decimals on a Line

Every fraction with a denominator of 10 lands on the exact same point on a number line as its decimal twin.