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Ordering numbers from smallest to largest?!

Struggling to orders these from smallest to largest for functional skills maths, can anyone help please?!
A) 4.6, 4.06, 6.4, 6.04, 6.14
B) 1013.312, 1031.132, 1031.213, 1012.312, 1012.213

Reply 1

Zacken

Original post by Yasmine93

Struggling to orders these from smallest to largest for functional skills maths, can anyone help please?!
A) 4.6, 4.06, 6.4, 6.04, 6.14
B) 1013.312, 1031.132, 1031.213, 1012.312, 1012.213

What are your thoughts on the matter? What's the smallest in the first list?

Reply 2

username2130115

Original post by Yasmine93

Struggling to orders these from smallest to largest for functional skills maths, can anyone help please?!
A) 4.6, 4.06, 6.4, 6.04, 6.14
B) 1013.312, 1031.132, 1031.213, 1012.312, 1012.213

i thought this was a computer science question for a minute. i was gonna explain sorting algorithms hahaha.

Reply 3

Yasmine93

Oh haha that would of confused me even more!

Reply 4

backtraced

Original post by Yasmine93

Struggling to orders these from smallest to largest for functional skills maths, can anyone help please?!
A) 4.6, 4.06, 6.4, 6.04, 6.14
B) 1013.312, 1031.132, 1031.213, 1012.312, 1012.213

I'd start by looking at the number before the decimal place and putting them in order from smallest to biggest. Then, look at the first number after the decimal place and put them in size order (so, 0 before 1, 1 before 2 etc.) and then do the same for the third. These should then come out in ascending order!

You can do the same for the B) list as well. Would you like to give it a try, and then we can all help you out?