Decimals in Dividend and Divisor

When you move the decimal in the divisor, what happens in the dividend?

• You raise the decimal straight up

• Nothing

• You put a zero in the front

• The decimal moves the same amount in the dividend that it moved in the divisor.

In a division problem when there is a decimal in the dividend but not in the divisor, what do I do first?

• Ignore the decimal

• Move the decimal to make the dividend a whole number

• Move the decimal straight up in the quotient

• Erase the decimal

If there is a decimal in the divisor, what must be done first?

• The divisor must be made a whole

• The decimal gets moved into the dividend

• Divide like normal

• Erase the decimal

4.32 ÷ 9

• 0.38

• 3.18

• 4.8

• 0.48

14.56 ÷ 1.3

• 112

• 1.12

• 11.2

• 12

1.4 ÷ 0.2 =

• 14

• 140

• 7

• 0.7

25.2 ÷ 4

• 6.4

• 5.13

• 5.4

• 6.3

0.36 ÷ 0.6 

• .216

• .6

• .36

• .42

What is the first step when dividing the problem above?

• Move the decimal in the divisor AND dividend TWO places.

• Move the decimal in the divisor AND dividend THREE places.

• Move the decimal in only the divisor

• Bring the decimal straight up.