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How do you check your answers with decimals?
You multiplie the number you were dividing by with the answer.
How do you check a division problem?
Multiply the answer to the problem by the number that you are dividing by. (e.g. 18/2=9 Check it with 9*2=18)
What is the sign of the quotient?
The sign of a quotient is when you are multiplying and dividing numbers. This can take a good bit of thinking when try to find the answers. But one you get done you can check your answer by knowing whether it is negative or positive.
How is dividing a decimal by a whole number different than dividing 2 decimals?
Unlike dividing by a whole number, dividing buy a decimal number cannot be done directly - the divisor must first be converted to a whole number (and then the division can be done). The easiest way to do this conversion is to keep multiplying the divisor by 10 until a whole number is obtained; however, whatever is done to the divisor must also be done to the dividend, so by whatever the divisor is multiplied, the dividend must also be multiplied.
How do you make a remainder into a decimal?
you have to divide the remainder by the number you are dividing
