The product will have at most 2 decimal places.
The number of decimal places in the product must equal the total number of decimal places in the factors. John's product should have 2 decimal places.
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When multiplying a whole number by a decimal with two places, ignore the decimal point and multiply as if you were multiplying two whole numbers. After you get the answer, re-insert the decimal point so that the product has two decimal places.
When multiplying a whole number by a decimal with two places, ignore the decimal point and multiply as if you were multiplying two whole numbers. After you get the answer, re-insert the decimal point so that the product has two decimal places.
It moves the decimal point two places to the right.
The number of decimal places in the product must equal the total number of decimal places in the factors. John's product should have 2 decimal places.
Not necessarily: for example, consider 0.5 * 4 = 2
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Two of them.
When multiplying a whole number by a decimal with two places, ignore the decimal point and multiply as if you were multiplying two whole numbers. After you get the answer, re-insert the decimal point so that the product has two decimal places.
When multiplying a whole number by a decimal with two places, ignore the decimal point and multiply as if you were multiplying two whole numbers. After you get the answer, re-insert the decimal point so that the product has two decimal places.
It moves the decimal point two places to the right.
Two places.
When you multiply decimals, you just ignore the decimal until the end, then, to find the amount of decimal places in your answer, you add the amount of decimal places in both your factors
two.
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The number of decimal places for the product will be the summation of the amount of decimal places of the 2 factors. For example, if your products have 2 decimals each to the right of zero then the product will have an answer with 4 decimals to the right of zero.