If you had 1/2 (0.5) of a Pizza left and wanted to share it equally with your friend you would share it so that each of you got 0.5 ÷ 2 of the whole pizza each.
To actually do this, using the "bus stop" [shelter] method of long/short division is the easiest:
Write the whole number divisor outside the bus stop and put the decimal dividend under the bus stop [shelter]. Place a decimal point in the quotient answer above the bus stop [shelter] ABOVE the decimal point in the dividend. Now do the long/short division as normal, ignoring the decimal points (except if there is a remainder extra zeros can be added onto the end of the dividend and the division continued until there is no remainder or the required degree of accuracy has been reached to allow an approximate, rounded, answer) . Finally read the quotient answer including the decimal point.
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Move the decimal to the right until they are both whole numbers.You can divide them now.
rounding whole numbers and decimals
No because whole numbers are integers without decimals or fractions
You use short division for decimals by whole numbers, then replace the decimal point in between the numbers, the answer is 15.0
Whole numbers contain no fractional part as do decimals