Ms. Garcia Math
Multiplying Decimals
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Multiply the digits without decimals. Count the decimal places. Your answer has the same number of decimal places.
Dividing Decimals
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Multiply the divisor (and dividend) by a power of ten to make the divisor a whole number. Divide.
Inverse Operations
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Division is the inverse, or opposite, of multiplication. That means multiplication and division can be used to undo each other.
To check a division problem multiply the quotient by the divisor and then add the remainder