What is 85 billion divided by 200 million?

Answer 1

0.425

Answer 2

1000 / 200 is the same a s 100 / 20, which is the same as 10 / 2 ... when two numbers in a division share a number of trailing zeroes these can be cancelled out. 85,000.000,000 = 85 billion 200,000,000 = 200 million. As both numbers have 8 trailing zeroes, we can cancel them out. This leaves us with 850 and 2. Now the division problem is much easier. 850 /2 = 425. So 85 billion divided by 200 million = 425. -- edit -- In British English usage a billion has 12 zeroes. so the answer then would be 425,000