Part one: given: 54.23 x 18.2 = 986.986

provide a convincing proof that the decimal is in the correct place.

part two:

describe how you would convert the fractions into decimals from week 3’s discussion (part one – question 1).
what do your decimals represent? what place value would you recommend rounding your answers to?
part three: communicate with each other by commenting to at least 2 of your classmates.

part one discussion from last week
over the period 1997- 2007 there was a 28% drop in the teen pregnancy rate in new york city’s resident teens.
in 2007, there were 83.2 pregnancies per 1,000 resident females 15-19 years old, with the rate among non-hispanic black and hispanic teens 5.9 and 5.5 times higher than among whites respectively.