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Dividing Decimals
Related Topics: Orders of operation | Quotient of Fractions | Rules of Divisibility- The general rule of diving decimals is to always make sure that the divisor is a whole number. Example on how to transform the divisor to a whole number.
- Proceed with typical division.
- The location of the decimal point is inlined with the decimal point of the dividend.
Examples:
1. Find the quotient of 762 divided by 0.64
2. Find the quotient of 7.6 divided by 0.32
3. Find the quotient of 7 divided by 0.03
This third example is a problem that involves repeating / recurring decimals. If you repeat the process of division and you get same answer then the decimal is a repeating decimal. Thus to indicate that the decimal is repeating, we put a bar at the top of the repeating number. For this probem we put at the top of 3.