college math 1012 help

Question

Write thirty-nine thousand and seven hundred sixty-seven thousandths as a decimal number.

Answer 1

39,000 + 0.767 = 39000.767

unless you really meant (39,000+767)/1000

39.767

or maybe you meant (39+767)/1000

= 0.806

depends on where you have implicit parentheses

it's a little ambiguous as written

but I'd go with 39000.767, given English rules of grammar, which don't coincide with math rules so much. Who gave you this question? an instructor or a texbook? If the former, I'd watch out for him. He or She seems out to confuse people, unnecessarily. My best guess would be they failed to get their Ph.D, and still are angry over it, so they take it out on students

in order of likelihood of what your instructor wants is:

1st place: gold medal 39000.767

2nd place: silver: 39.767

3rd place: bronze 0.806

This reminds me of my first algebra instructor, long ago who had a few brain cells missing. Hard to forget him. I even remember his name and physical appearance. His face fades a little though. I even had a dream about him recently. Sort of a vampire type. Fangs instead of teeth