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Two point four divided by eighty is my question

User Richard Bender
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To do the division:


(2.4)/(80)

eliminating the decimals we can multiply both numbers by ten then we have:


(2.4)/(80)\cdot(10)/(10)=(24)/(800)

Now we reduced the fraction to its simplest form:


(24)/(800)=(6)/(200)=(3)/(100)

Hence the division is equivalent to:


(3)/(100)

But we know that if we divided any number by a multiple of 10 the answer is the numerator put in the corresponding decimal place that the denominator tells us; in this case the hundreth place; therefore the answer is:


0.03

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