You can use a place value chart to help see the value of each digit in a number. Let's put the number 258.35 into a place value chart. The digit in the hundreds place is 2. It has a value of 200.

Let’s put these counters into a place value chart to help us read this as a decimal number. Can you see that: 1 4 = 25 100 = 0.25 So the decimal equivalent of 1 4 is 0.25.