Sectioning – Setting Section Counter in LaTeX

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I am writing a lab report and there are four "questions" corresponding to lab instructions 6.1 through to 6.4. How can I set the section counter to start at 6.1 and then continue in 0.1 increments? I would like to avoid using environments like enumerate because I have tikz figures and some of the formatting I have already done elsewhere in the document may be lost. I am using the report class. Here is the MWC:

\documentclass[]{report}
\begin{document}
\title{REPORT}
\author{student ID}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
\section{} \paragraph{6.1}
\section{} \paragraph{6.2}
\section{} \paragraph{6.3}
\section{} \paragraph{6.4}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Why not simply use subsections after setting the section counter to 6?

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setcounter{section}{6}
\subsection{First question}
\subsection{Second question}
\subsection{Third question}
\end{document}
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