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When a whole number is multiplied by a decimal smaller than one what can you conclude about the result?
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∙ 8y ago
The result is less than the whole number and greater than or equal to the decimal.
Unless the whole number is negative in which case the result is greater than the whole number and less than or equal to the decimal.
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Why can you multiply two decimal numbers together and get an answer less than either one of the numbers you multiplied?
For the same reason that you can multiply two proper fractions and get a smaller number than either of them. You are multiplying either decimal by a number that is smaller than 1. As a result you get an answer that is smaller than 1 times the first number.
What happens to the value of a number when multiplied by a decimal?
Nothing special happens. The answer can be smaller or bigger. A rational can become irrational or the other way around.
What are the similarities of a decimal and a percentage?
A decimal number, multiplied by 100, is its percentage.
How many decimal places are in the product of a number with decimal places to the hundredths multiplied by a number with decimal places to the tenth?
three
What is smaller a decimals or a whole number?
Neither. A for every decimal number (which may itself be a whole number), there is a smaller whole number and for every whole number there is a smaller decimal number.
Why when multiplying two decimal numbers together you get a smaller number you multiplied?
That is not necessarily the case.2.5*4.3 = 10.75 which is larger than either of the numbers being multiplied.
Why can you multiply two decimal numbers together and get an answer less than either one of the numbers you multiplied?
For the same reason that you can multiply two proper fractions and get a smaller number than either of them. You are multiplying either decimal by a number that is smaller than 1. As a result you get an answer that is smaller than 1 times the first number.
What happens to the value of a number when multiplied by a decimal?
Nothing special happens. The answer can be smaller or bigger. A rational can become irrational or the other way around.
What are the similarities of a decimal and a percentage?
A decimal number, multiplied by 100, is its percentage.
When will a decimal number multiplied by 10 equal a whole number?
When there is only one number after the decimal point
How many decimal places are in the product of a number with decimal places to the thousandths multiplied by a number with decimal places to the hundredths?
2
How many decimal places are in the product of a number with decimal places to the hundredths multiplied by a number with decimal places to the tenth?
three
How many decimal places are in a product of a number with decimal places to the thousandths multiplied by a number with decimal places to the hundredths?
There will be five decimal places.
How do the products change as the number multiplied by 5 get smaller?
They also get smaller.
What is smaller a decimals or a whole number?
Neither. A for every decimal number (which may itself be a whole number), there is a smaller whole number and for every whole number there is a smaller decimal number.
How many decimal places are in the products of a number with decimal places to the thousandths multiplied by a number with decimal places to the hundredths?
5 of them.
How many decimals are in a product of a number with decimal places to the thousandths multiplied by a number with decimal places in the hundredths?
5.
