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Decreasing Order

These four hills are in order of their heights from the tallest to the shortest.

When we write numbers from the greatest to the smallest they are said to
be in decreasing or descending order.

248 m, 168 m, 95 m, 72 m are in decreasing order.

Some more examples of numbers arranged in decreasing order:

a. 67, 52, 48, 43, 39 b. 154, 151, 146, 98, 73

Exercise 1F

1. Rewrite the following numbers in increasing (ascending) order.

a. 120 266 163 75 87 _____________________________
b. 215 182 276 142 45 _____________________________

c. 112 110 271 243 180 _____________________________

d. 190 113 145 119 172 _____________________________

e. 297 263 201 146 259 _____________________________

2. Rewrite the following numbers in decreasing (descending) order.

a. 211 272 230 98 47 _____________________________

b. 205 218 239 152 44 _____________________________

c. 245 260 298 280 241 _____________________________

d. 195 183 141 265 200 _____________________________

e. 187 241 250 298 136 _____________________________

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Numbers up to 300