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It's time we start raisin the bar with decimals.

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Transcript

00:01

we speak student

00:13

Larry and Sean are twins, but not the kind of twins who like to hold hands and frolic together while wearing matching outfits [young girl twins hugging each other]

00:19

They're the kind of twins who are always plotting each other's demo today is a big day in their rivalry

00:24

It's time to settle who's better once and for all will it be thumb wrestling a tree climbing contest nope

00:30

They're going to see who can eat the most rotten grapes. It's a thing in their town. Yeah [a plate of rotting grapes]

00:34

It's an odd place so the official rotten grape judge makes a grand entrance on the back of a camel [a man sitting on the back of a camel]

00:40

not sure why the official rotten grape judge rides a camel like we said it's an odd place the judge proclaims the rules to the

00:46

contest they're about as straightforward as it gets whoever eats the most rotten grapes wins and [rules of the grape eating contest]

00:51

They're off larry and Sean both quickly outpace the competition

00:54

They're shoveling rotten grapes like they were born to do it other contestants fall by the wayside [boy vomiting after eating too many rotten grapes]

00:58

But larry and Sean are the most relentless rotten greape eaters the town has ever seen

01:02

Even the camel is impressed when the time is up both boys are sure they've won Sean has eaten

01:08

[twin boys looking anxious at the ressults of a contest] 1.392 pounds of rotten grapes and Larry has eaten 1.293

01:12

The judge stepped in to judge the results after all it is his job [judge stood beside two twins]

01:16

he tells the boys its time they knew how to compare decimals when the whole numbers are equal in this case both boys got at

01:22

Least one pound so now the decision must be made based on the numbers on the side of the decimal point [highlighted decimal point numbers]

01:27

The tenths place is the place just after the decimal point and whoever has the greatest number there wins Sean had 1.392

01:34

and Larry has 1.293

01:38

Since Seans 3 is greater than Larry's two that means drumroll Sean is a champion [twin holding his alarm aloft]

01:43

He throws his hand into the air in triumph as larry throws himself to the ground in defeat all day Sean rubs it in Larry's

01:50

Face but Larry does feel consoled when Sean spent all night throwing up [twin boy throwing up]

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