Multiplying with Decimals
8.12 x 10
81.2
9.9 / 10
0.99
125 / 5
25
7.2 / 9
0.8
The number inside the box
What is the dividend?
3.7 x 100
370
7.77 / 100
0.0777
135 / 3
45
5.04 / 4
1.26
The number outside the box
What is the divisor?
0.09 x 1000
90
5 / 100
0.05
636 / 6
61
3.54 / 0.03
118
The answer on top of the box
What is the quotient?
To find a softball player's batting average, divide the player's number of hits by the player's number of turns at bat. Kazuko has 26 hits in 125 turns at bat. Savanna has 11 hits in 50 turns at bat. Who has a greater batting average? What was the batting average?
Savanna 0.220
A football stadium has a total of 22,392 seats. Of these seats, 1,920 are VIP seats. The rest of the seats are divided into 24 equal sections of standard seats. How many seats are in each section of the standard seats?
853
Both.
You only need the divisor to be the whole number, so you can multiply the dividend and the divisor by 10 to rewrite the problem as 282.5 divided by 7. If you multiply both by 100 you will still get the same quotient.
0.5 divided by 0.8
.625
An adventure race is 9.75 mi long. The race is divided into equal sections. Each section is .75 mi long. The race organizer needs 4 volunteers in each section. How many volunteers does the race organizer need?
13