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I need to understand dividing numbers that have decimals in them.

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Let's say we want to divide 25.6 by 5.3.

To divide these numbers, we can express them without the decimal point and divide them as usual. One the divisor is less than the dividend, we add a point to the quotient in order to get a new zero to keep dividing.

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