Everywhere you look you will find decimals. The odometer in the family car measures off miles and tenths of a mile. In a machine shop you use and instrument called a micrometer which measures items in tenths, hundredths, and thousandths of an inch. Batting averages for baseball players are given in decimals. Your body temperature is expressed in whole degrees and tenths of a degree. Measurements in scientific work are given in decimals. But by far the most use you personally make of decimals