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Lesson 8: Dividing decimals- Dividing whole numbers to get a decimal
- Dividing whole numbers like 56÷35 to get a decimal
- Dividing a decimal by a whole number
- Dividing a whole number by a decimal
- Dividing decimals with hundredths
- Dividing decimals completely
- Long division with decimals
- Dividing decimals: hundredths
- Dividing by a multi-digit decimal
- Dividing decimals: thousandths
- Arithmetic with rational numbers FAQ
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Dividing decimals completely
CCSS.Math:
Sal shows how to divide 6.3 by 0.25.
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- Why do we have to multiply for the both numbers with 1 with some zeros to make it whole?(13 votes)
- If you don't multiply both numbers by the same value, you change the relationship between the numbers and you get an incorrect result. Remember, the bar in the middle of a fraction is a division symbol. When we create equivalent fractions, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same number. You are basically applying this same rule. when we multiply both numbers by a power of 10 to shift the decimal points.(12 votes)
- do you just have to throw in zeros and divide normally and you just get the answer right there(7 votes)
- Yes, throw in zeros so that both numbers have the same amount of decimals.
Then you can remove the decimal point and perform the division.(10 votes)
- hi, why do we only have to make the divisor a whole number and not the dividend?(8 votes)
- We could make them both whole numbers, but it’s not necessary. Once we make the divisor a whole number (and move the decimal point the same number of places in the dividend as in the divisor), it is enough to place the decimal point in the answer directly above the decimal point in the dividend and then start the long division.
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- In the video, it said that you need to throw in zeros. However, I am wondering whether can you also throw in the zeros in other ways. For instance, if there was this problem 6.45 divided by 15, can we write 0.645 divided by 1.5?(8 votes)
- Yes. They have the same result. Doing that operation to both sides is a mathematically "legal move" so yes, it is completely valid to do so.(4 votes)
- So dividing decimals is techenaly like multiplication right?(6 votes)
- Yeah. You ca convert the decimals into fractions and divide it like that which is a bit easier if you are strong in fractions.(7 votes)
- Can we divide with decimals without removing decimal points?(5 votes)
- Yes, you can divide without removing the decimal point IF the decimal is located in the dividend and not in the divisor. If it's also in the divisor, it'll be easier to just move the decimal points.(6 votes)
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- what is 45.2 divided by 0.2 because idk if the 0.2 should go outside or inside and im so confused on what the answer is can someone just explaing to me how to divide decimals? ;-;
i need help(3 votes)- If you have 45.2/.2, move decimal once in both numerator and denominator to get 452/2 which you can probably do.(5 votes)
Video transcript
- [Voiceover] Let's figure out what 6.3 divided by 0.25 is. And when I look at something like this, the first thing that
I think about is well, is there a way that I can rewrite this? Instead of dividing it by 25 hundredths, instead of dividing it by 0.25, I could divide it by a
whole number, maybe 25. And so how do I turn
25 hundredths into 25? Well, if I multiply it by, if I multiply it by 10 once, then. the decimal's one spot to the right. And if I multiply it by 10 twice, then I'm gonna move
two spots to the right. And 25 hundredths is going to become 25. I multiplied by 10 twice,
which is the same thing as multiplying by a hundred. Now of course, I can't only do it to 0.25, that would change the value
of this entire expression. I also have to do it to 6.3. If I move the decimal to
the right twice over here, to get a whole number, I gotta move the decimal twice to the right over here. So let's see, if I move
it to the right once, I get 63, so that's one
multiplication by 10. And now I wanna move
it to the right again, and you might say, "Wait,
wait, there doesn't look like "there's any other digits here "that I can move to the right of." And we just have to remind ourselves, that 6.3, well that's going
to be the same thing as 6.30, or we could actually as many zeroes as we want to the end of this, and not change the value, it's still 6.3. Six and three tenths is the same thing as six and 30 hundredths. So now, I can move the decimal
one more spot to the right. And, so I'm multiplying by 10 again. And it becomes 630. So 6.3 divided by 0.25 is the same thing as 630 divided by 25. And let me do that again, because this is really, the
tricky part, or the artful part, when you're dividing decimals. If I were to write, 0.25, being divided into, being divided into, 6.3. Six, let me do it. Six, 6.3. Now, what I care about is moving
this decimal to the right, far enough so that this
becomes a whole number. I don't have to move it any further, just far enough so that
this becomes a whole number. And then I have to move this, the same number of times to the right. But the goal is to make
this a whole number, not to make the 6.3 a whole number, although that is going to
happen for this particular case. So if I move it two spaces to the right, so, one, two. 0.25 becomes 25, and then 6.3 becomes, move it one space, two
spaces to the right, it becomes 630. And so let me, let me clarify that, let me just clear all of this
stuff away out of the way, to just make that clear what I just did. So we don't have to deal with all of this messiness when we're actually doing our long division now. And so this one over here, let me erase all of this business. And we are ready to do some, we're ready to do some,
some long division, alright. So now this is just straightforward, dividing a two digit number
into a three digit number. And so we could say, well, 25 goes into six zero times, so let's keep going. 25 goes into 63, let's see, two times 25 is 50, three times 25 is 75, so that's too much, so we wanna go two times. Two times 25 is going to be 50, and we can subtract. Or, if you didn't know two
times 25 is going to 50, you could have said two times five is 10, carry the one or regroup the one. Two times two is four, plus one is five. So we got 50. And now we subtract, and we get three minus zero is three, six minus five is one. And now we bring down the next digit. We can bring down this zero. And we could say, 25, and let me scratch this out, so I
don't confuse myself later. 25 goes into 130 how many times? Let's see, 25 times four is 100, 25 times five is 125, 25 times six would be
150, so that's too big. So I'm gonna go five times. So five times, And I write, it's very important to keep track of my places right here, I brought down the zero to make the 13 into 130, so I say 25 goes into 130 five times, I write it above the zero, I write it right above
the zero right over there. And then five times 25, five times five, we already know what it is, but I'll just figure it out. Five times five is 25, regroup the two, five times two is 10, plus two is 12. And now we can, now we can subtract. And you might know
offhand, well (mumbles), 130 minus 125 is going to be five, or if you like, you could
do a little regrouping, can make this, you could
take a 10 from there, and then put the 10 in the ones place, and this becomes 10,
10 minus five is five. Now, we aren't done yet. We wanna divide this completely, so we can bring down another zero. We can bring down another zero, and I'm picking an appropriate color, to, for the next, so I'll use, well I already used the green once, we'll use yellow. So once again, I can
bring down another zero, but I have to be very careful here, I can't just, I can't just throw a zero right over there. That's gonna turn 630 into 6300. I have to be very particular,
say no, look, look. This next zero I'm gonna put, that's gonna be after the decimal. Now 630 is the same thing as 630.0, and if I'm gonna add a decimal there, I wanna throw the decimal right above it. Need to be very careful with that. But now we're ready to start
bringing down the zero. So let's bring down this zero. And we have 50, how many times does 25 go into 50? Let me scratch this out, so we don't confuse ourselves later. 25 goes two times into 50, two times 25 is in fact 50, is in fact 50. And so now we can subtract. And we now have a remainder of zero, and there's nothing left to
bring down other than zeros, and we have a remainder of zero, so we are done dividing completely. You take 630, divided by 25, it's 25.2. Or if you look at our original problem, if you look at our original problem, which was 6.30 divided by 0.25, that also is 25.2. So this is also going to be 25.2. Let me rewrite it, let me rewrite it. So our original problem was 6.3 divided by 0.25, which we just figured out, what we just figured out is 25.2. And we're done.