* Hundredths are a fraction of a whole unit. A hundredth is like having one out of one hundred pieces of something.

* Miles are a unit of distance. We can't directly say how many hundredths *are* in a mile because they measure different things.

Think about it like this:

* You can't say how many apples are in a gallon of milk. They measure different things!

To make the question make sense, we need to think about what we're comparing:

* Hundredths of a *mile*: We can figure out how many hundredths of a mile are in a mile. This would be like dividing the mile into 100 equal parts.

* Hundredths of a *foot*: We could also ask how many hundredths of a foot are in a mile.

To answer, you'd need to know what unit you're dividing the mile into!