Transcript: 10ths and Decimals

JACKIE: Hello?!Hello? Anyone here? Hello?!

DIGIT: Deci, where are ya?!

MATT: No one’s here!

INEZ: Look, here’s a long rail! We can take one of these.

JACKIE: What if it’s too long?

DIGIT: What if it’s too short?

MATT: Look! This big ruler’s the same height as the rails. Let’s measure. He places his back to the stick. We need one of me...plus Inez...plus Didge! C’mon, Inez...stand on my head.

INEZ: (Effort sounds) Okay, I’m on!

MATT: Didge!

DIGIT: I’m almost at the top!

JACKIE: You’re nine-tenths of the way up.

DIGIT: That’s right!

JACKIE: We only need part of one whole rail – a rail that’s nine tenths of it.

DECI: Tennnn-hut!

DIGIT: Deci!

INEZ: Oh, hi, sir. Motherboard sent us to make sure the Madre Bonitas get delivered.

MATT: But Hacker ripped out a rail - and the train can’t get through!

DECI: So that’s what happened! Hmm, Mama won’t be happy about that. She expects her flower on Mother’s Day.

INEZ: Can you fix the rail?

DECI: The portal to ship out the Madre Bonitas is only half done - gotta finish that first. You kids will have to repair the rail.

JACKIE: We’ll try, Mr. Deci, sir. According to this ruler, we only need a fraction of the whole rail. Nine-tenths to be exact. Where do we find one?

DECI: Nine-tenths, you say, huh? I measure my rails with decimals! I live by decimals. Now listen up! This decimal designator and this ruler - are the same length as a standard rail. But my designator measures everything in decimals! So, to get your nine-tenths, you want a rail that’s decimal point nine long.

MATT: Check it out! Nine-tenths is the same as decimal point nine!

DECI: That’s affirmative, son! Put a decimal point in front of nine, and it means nine-tenths. Get my point?!

JACKIE: Yes, sir, Mr. Deci, sir. We get it.

DECI: Good! The rails are marked. Grab a decimal point nine and move out! I’ve got a portal to prepare!

KIDS: Point eight...point five...point three...

INEZ: I don’t see any point nine rails!

MATT: Me neither!

JACKIE: What am I gonna do? Oh man, I’m gonna have to go to the mall for a present!

DIGIT: Well, you can’t get to the mall if we can’t get to the flowers! And we can’t do that without a rail that fits!

JACKIE: Hmm, okay, let’s get a grip, Didge. We just need to think this out.

INEZ: Wait! What if we use some shorter rails and put them together? You know, like when we used ourselves to measure.

MATT: Why not? As long as the total adds up to point nine, we’re in the game!

INEZ/JACKIE/MATT: (Effort sounds)

INEZ: Okay, what do we have?

MATT: A point four, point three and point two.

JACKIE: Four and three and two...is nine! Point nine long! We’ve got it!

DIGIT: Whoa whoa whoa! You can add decimals together???

INEZ: Sure! Decimal are numbers too.

DIGIT: Hmmm, I’m startin’ to like these decimals!