Arithmetic Grade Five

Lesson Seventy-six: Decimal Division


More three digit divisors:
	      
	       .028
	    +------
	200 | 5.600		Remember that the decimal point in
	      4 00		the answer is written directly
             ------		above the decimal point in the
	      1 600		dividend. 
	      1 600
	      -----
		  0

Here's another problem to consider:

	       .13		
	   +-------		
       600 | 78.00		
	     600		
	    ------		
	     18 0		
	     18 0		
	    -------		
	        0		

Pay special attention to this example:

	      .003		
	   +-------		Notice that we have two zeroes to
       600 | 1.800		the right of the decimal point before
	     1 800		we get to the three. Remember that
	    ------		the decimal point must go straight up
 	         0		from the dividend to the quotient.

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