Video Transcript
Arrange the following in ascending
order: 0.2, negative 0.2, negative 2.3, nine, two.
We know that ascending order means
least to greatest. It might be helpful here for us to
think of these values in terms of a number line. We know all the positive values
will go to the right of zero and all the negative values will go to the left of
zero. When we’re dealing with values that
are negative, values to the left of zero, the larger they are, the further away from
zero they will be. So negative 2.3 will be further
away from zero than negative 0.2. So we would call negative 2.3 the
least value.
After that would come negative
0.2. From here, we need to compare our
positive values. The decimal value is the only value
that’s less than one. So it would come next. And we know that two is smaller
than nine. So we would write two and then
nine. In ascending order, these values
are negative 2.3, negative 0.2, 0.2, two, and nine.
