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- With multiplication, you have to follow 4 easy steps to get your answer, as listed below.
- Count the number of decimal places in both the multiplicand, and the multiplier.
- Remember to ignore decimals, you need to right align the numbers one on top of the other as if they were integers.
- Multiply the numbers using long multiplication, an algorithm.
- Make sure to insert a decimal point into the product, your final result, so that it has the same number of decimal places equal to the total of decimal places from step 1.
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What have we learned?
We learned the four steps to solving a multiplication problem, which can be helpful here, and in the future.
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