You are not dividing by a whole number, so you need to move the decimal point so that you are dividing by a whole number: cow [image] (Remember to move the decimal point of both numbers!) You are now dividing by a whole number, so you can proceed: yee Ignore the decimal point and use Long Division: hiii [image] Put the decimal point in the answer directly above the decimal point in the dividend: [image] The answer is 2.5 New Merits: 0.9(59% answered Q966 correctly.)
The trick is to get rid of the decimal point from the number we are dividing by. How? We can "shift the decimal point" out of the way by multiplying by 10, as many times as we need to. But we must do the same thing to both numbers in the division. Example: 15 divided by 0.2
