Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

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Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Speaker: Not all numbers are whole numbers. Decimals are numbers that are between two whole numbers. So 1.4 is between 1 and 2. A decimal that starts with a 0 before the decimal point is less than 1.

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Stian Lydersen, PhD, professor of medical statistics at the Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, Department of Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and ...