What is the place value of 9 in the number 3.0492?
Answer Details
In the number 3.0492, 9 is in the thousandth place.
The places in a decimal number are counted from left to right starting from the tenths place, which is immediately to the right of the decimal point. Each place value to the right of the tenths place is ten times smaller than the one to its left.
So the first digit to the right of the decimal point is in the tenths place, the second digit is in the hundredths place, and the third digit is in the thousandths place, and so on.
Therefore, the place value of 9 in the number 3.0492 is \(\frac{9}{1000}\).