Question

arrange the decmils from least to greatest
18.195, 1.8195, 18.1953, 18.185,18.19

Answer 1

if you are familiar with wolfram you can use that to check your answers: http://www2.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sort%280.4559%2C+0.4599%2C+0.44599%2C+0.5459%2C+0.455%29

Answer 2

pretty clear that 1.8195 is the smallest right?

Answer 3

yep

Answer 4

that leaves these
18.195, 18.1953, 18.185,18.19
and they all have a one in the tenths place. so look at the next place.

Answer 5

18.185 has an 8 in the hundredth place, the rest have a 9, so it is the next smallest

Answer 6

that leaves
18.195, 18.1953, 18.19
they all have a nine in the hundredth place, but 18.19 has nothing afterwards, so it is the next smallest

Answer 7

down to
18.195, 18.1953
18.195 has a 5 in the thousandth place but nothing after, so it is smaller than 18.1953
and we are done