Division Rules
When my DIVIDEND gets 10x bigger, my answer gets...
10x bigger
30 ÷ 0.1
300
2.4 ÷ 12
0.2
0.7 ÷ 4
a. 17.5
b. 1.75
c. 0.175
d. 0.0175
C
A rope 8.7 meters long is cut into 5 equal pieces. How long is each piece?
1.74 meters
When my DIVISOR gets 10x bigger, my answer gets..
10x smaller
5.4 ÷ 0.06
90
0.8 ÷ 16
0.05
8.1 ÷ 5
a. 1.62
b. 0.162
c. 0.0162
d. 0.00162
A
What is the length of a rectangle whose width is 17 inches and whose area is 582.25 square inches?
34.25 inches
When my DIVIDEND gets 100x smaller, my answer gets...
100x smaller
6 ÷ 0.02
300
12.21 ÷ 11
1.11
2.4 ÷ 0.8
a. 300
b. 30
c. 3
d. 0.3
C
30.48 kg of beef was placed into 24 packages of equal weight. What is the weight of one package of beef?
1.27 kg
When my DIVISOR gets 100x smaller, my answer gets...
100x bigger
0.8 ÷ 0.04
20
47.31 ÷ 57
0.83
8.2 ÷ 0.9
a. 91.1
b. 9.11
c. 0.911
d. 0.0911
B
A blue rope is three times as long as a red rope. A green rope is 5 times as long as the blue rope. If the total length of the three ropes is 508.25 meters, what is the length of the blue rope?
80.25 meters
I can do this to my expression to get ready of decimals in the divisor
Multiply both dividend and divisor by the same thing
Create an equivalent expression
5.6 ÷ 0.007
800
96.2 ÷ 37
2.6
0.15 ÷ 0.05
a. 0.03
b. 0.3
c. 30
d. 3
D
A craft club makes 95 identical paperweights to sell. They collect $230.85 from selling all the paperweights. If the profit the club collects on each paperweight is two times as much as the cost to make each one, what does it cost the club to make each paperweight?
$1.215