Mrs. Flores is sending packages to two grandchildren. The package for Santiago weighs 7.82 pounds, and the package for Sofia weighs 7.28 pounds.

Select words from the drop‐down menus to explain how Mrs.
Flores can use place value to find which package weighs more.

Mrs. Flores can compare each digit of the decimals starting from the
left or right?
.

The
ones
place of each weight is 7, so she should compare the
tenths
places.

The package for
Santiago
has an 8 in the
tenths
place, and the package for
Sophia
has a 2 in the same place.

So, the package for
Santiago
weighs more.