Question

Write a word problem that involves dividing by a decimal.

Answer 1

you can use the example of a sale.

Abigail is at Forever 21 and she sees 80% off a t-shirt if the original price is 23.88 what is the current price of the t-shirt?

Answer 2

A 16-piece package of gum costs $0.96. How much does each piece of gum cost?

To find out how much each piece of gum costs, we need to divide the cost of the package of gum which is $0.96 by the number of pieces of gum in the package which is 16.

So we have 16 divided into 0.96.

Steps for division

16 divides into 96 6 times so we write the 6 above the 6. 6 × 16 is 96 and 96 - 96 is 0. Finally, we bring the decimal point up to the same position in our answer and use zeroes to fill the missing positions. So we have 0.06 which means that each piece of gum costs $0.06.

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