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How can knowing that multiplication is repeated addition and division is repeated subtraction help you understand that multiplication and division are related?
the whole reason is this: multiplication is adding to that number in groups and division is subtracting from a number in groups.
How is addition and subtraction different from multiplication and division?
For the specific case of whole numbers, you can consider multiplication to be repeated addition; and division to be repeated subtraction (see how often you can subtract something).
What is the relationship between decimal products and quotients?
Decimal products are numbers that are the result of multiplication procedures and are not whole numbers. Decimal quotients are numbers that are the result of division procedures and are not whole numbers.
What is the same between whole numbers and decimals?
They are all numbers and obey the same rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation etc.
How do you answer a division problem using whole whole numbers and a decimals?
When it tells you to divide by a certain decimal it really will return an answer bigger than the number you started with because it is like multiplication.
