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What value should go in the empty boxes to complete the calculation for finding the product of 0.98 × 0.73? Both numbers are the same; however, only input the number one time in your answer. 0.98 times 0.73 gives two unknown partial products. The first product is 294. The second product is an unknown value in the thousands place, 8 in the hundreds place, an unknown value in the tens place, and 0 ones. These products are being added

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Final answer:

The missing value in the multiplication calculation of 0.98 × 0.73 to complete the partial products is 294, resulting in a final product of 0.7154.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question you have asked involves finding a missing value in a multiplication problem involving two decimals, specifically 0.98 × 0.73. When multiplying these numbers, we obtain two partial products that need to be added to get the final product. The first given partial product is 294 (which we can assume is 0.98 × 0.300, because 0.73 has a 3 in the hundredths place). To find the second partial product, which has a number in the thousands place, an 8 in the hundreds place, an unknown value in the tens place, and 0 ones, we must focus on the digits of the numbers being multiplied. The second partial product comes from multiplying 0.98 by 0.03 (since 0.03 is the tens part of 0.73). We can determine that it must be the number 294 again (as it's the only part left that, when multiplied by 10, would give an 8 in the hundred's place and result in a number that could be added to the previous 294, to create a total without changing the ones place).

After adding these two partial products (294 + 2940), we find that the correct missing value to complete the calculation is 294. The final product of 0.98 × 0.73 is therefore 0.7154.

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