Finding the unit price of an object when the price for several of them is not a whole number of currency units. For example, how much is each banana if a bunch of four bananas costs 1.44?
A car requires 15 liters of petrol to travel 200 km.How much petrol is needed to travel 120 km?
When solving a problem involving money, a negative answer can represent an overdrawn account or an amount owed.
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A divisor is the number in a division problem, that you are dividing by to get your answer.
No. It is the number by which you are dividing. This may be the larger or the smaller number, depending on the problem.
70.3/10 is one example.
7145 X 0.15 = 1071.75 To solve a % problem, convert the % to a decimal by dividing by 100, then multiply by the other number.
The number doing the dividing in a division problem
quotient
It is called a divisor. The inside number is called the dividend and the answer is the quotient. The leftover number is called the quotient but you can keep dividing until you get a decimal.
15.67 When multiplying or dividing, the answer is rounded to the least number of decimal places as the number in the problem with the least number of decimal places. 6.35 has 2 decimal places and 2.467 has 3 decimal places, so you round the answer to 2 decimal places.
A car requires 15 liters of petrol to travel 200 km.How much petrol is needed to travel 120 km?
The divisor
The Divisor
Denominator
When solving a problem involving money, a negative answer can represent an overdrawn account or an amount owed.
It's easier to multiply the reciprocal.