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Suppose you want to show how the structure of the base-ten system remains the same to the left and right of the decimal point. You have bundles of toothpicks like the ones shown in Figure 1.39 and you want to use these bundled toothpicks to represent a decimal. List at least three decimals that you could use these bundles to represent and explain your answer in each case.
Figure 1.39 Which decimals can these bundled toothpicks represent?
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