Wednesday October 2, 2011

We will continue working on dividing with decimals, but today we will introduce how to divide when there is a decimal in the dividend as well as the divisor. 

Here are the steps to solving equations with decimals in the dividend and divisor.

 1.)   Set up equation with division bar

2.)  Move decimal in divisor to the right until divisor becomes a whole number

3.)  Move decimal in dividend same number of places

4.)  Add a decimal in quotient above decimal in dividend

5.)  Divide normally