Arithmetic Grade Five

Lesson Seventy-seven: Decimal Division

Now we will work on some slightly more difficult division problems with three digit divisors: 
	      
	        .036
	     +------
	 123 | 4.428		Remember that the decimal point in
	       3 69		the answer is written directly
             -------		above the decimal point in the
	         738		dividend. In this problem a zero
	         738		is the first digit to the right
	      -------		of the decimal point. Without
		   0		the zero in this spot the answer
		 		would be wrong.
Here's another problem to consider: 

	       .2		STEPS:
	   +-------		1. 444/222=2
       222 | 44.4		2. 222x2=444
	     44 4		3. 444-444=0 (done)
	    ------		
	        0

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