Question

11. When you multiply two decimals less than 1, how does the product compare to the factors?

Illustrate with an example.

Answer 1

The product is usually smaller than the two numbers multiplied

Explanation:

When we multiply two decimals less than one, it is a certainty that the result of the multiplication would be less than the two decimals that were multiplied. An example is the multiplication of the decimals below;

0.958 * 0.325

which equals 0.31135

We can see from the example above that the result of the multiplication of the two decimals that are less than one, results in a product that is less than the factors that were multiplied.