3.6.3 Dividing Decimals: Turn the Divisor into a Whole Number
3.6 The Four Operations with Decimals: Line Up the Decimal Point
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3.6.3 Dividing Decimals: Turn the Divisor into a Whole Number
Core idea
Shift the divisor's point right until it's a whole number, slide the dividend's point the same amount, and the hard problem becomes ordinary whole-number division.
Module goal. Master the methods for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, understand why the point moves where it does, and learn to round and handle repeating cases.
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