Question

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11. When you multiply two decimals less than 1, how does the product compare to the factors?
Illustrate with an example.
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Answer 1

It will always be less than both.

Explanation:

Multiplying by something smaller than 1 will always make the result smaller, so taking something like

0.8⋅0.5 means that we are taking half of 0.8

OR 45 of 0.5 (same thing)

either way it makes it smaller, which means we will get something smaller than both.

Answer 2

When multiplying a number by a decimal less than one, the product will be smaller than the number being multiplied. This is because we are finding a fractional amount of a quantity. For example, 0.1 x 0.8 = 0.08, because the question is asking us to find one tenth of eight tenths.