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Decimal Reference Sheet

1. To multiply decimal numbers, multiply the numbers as whole numbers and then place the decimal point in the answer by counting the total number of decimal places in the factors and moving the decimal that same number of places in the product. 2. To divide a decimal number, estimate the quotient first. Move the decimal point in the divisor to make it a whole number and move the decimal the same number of places in the dividend. Then divide as usual, placing the decimal in the quotient above the original decimal in the dividend. 3. When adding or subtracting decimals, align the numbers by their decimal points before performing the calculation. Place the decimal in the answer below the decimals in the original numbers.

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Decimal Reference Sheet

1. To multiply decimal numbers, multiply the numbers as whole numbers and then place the decimal point in the answer by counting the total number of decimal places in the factors and moving the decimal that same number of places in the product. 2. To divide a decimal number, estimate the quotient first. Move the decimal point in the divisor to make it a whole number and move the decimal the same number of places in the dividend. Then divide as usual, placing the decimal in the quotient above the original decimal in the dividend. 3. When adding or subtracting decimals, align the numbers by their decimal points before performing the calculation. Place the decimal in the answer below the decimals in the original numbers.

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How to multiply decimal numbers:

1. Estimate your product FIRST!


2. Multiply the numbers just as if they were whole numbers.

Line up the numbers on the right - do not align the decimal points.

3.

Place the decimal point in the answer by starting at the right and moving a number
of places equal to the sum of the decimal places in both numbers multiplied.

Estimate:
3.77 x 2.8.hmm

Does my answer
make sense?

4x3 = 12 so my
answer should be
around 12

10.556 is close to
12 so yes it is a
logical answer

How to multiply decimal numbers:

4. Estimate your product FIRST!


5. Multiply the numbers just as if they were whole numbers.

Line up the numbers on the right - do not align the decimal points.

6.

Place the decimal point in the answer by starting at the right and moving a number
of places equal to the sum of the decimal places in both numbers multiplied.

Estimate:
3.77 x 2.8.hmm
4x3 = 12 so my
answer should be
around 12

Does my answer
make sense?
10.556 is close to
12 so yes it is a
logical answer

How to ADD decimal numbers:

1.

Put the numbers in a vertical column, aligning the decimal points

2.

Add each column of digits, starting on the right and working left. If the sum of a
column is more than ten, "carry" digits to the next column on the left.

3.

Place the decimal point in the answer directly below the decimal points in the
terms.

Let's look at an example.

Estimate FIRST!
123 + 0.0079 + 43.5

Remember whole numbers


have the decimal after the
last digit!

120 + 1 + 44 = 165

Does 166.5079 seem logical based on my


estimate?

YES!

How to SUBTRACT decimal numbers:

1.

Put the numbers in a vertical column, aligning the decimal points.

2.

Subtract each column, starting on the right and working left. If the digit being
subtracted in a column is larger than the digit above it, "borrow" a digit from the
next column to the left.

3.

Place the decimal point in the answer directly below the decimal points in the
terms.

4.

Check your answer by adding the result to the number subtracted. The sum should
equal the first number.

Here's a subtraction example.

Estimate!
27.583 0.2
28 1 = 27

Does 27.383 seem like a logical


answer? Is it close to my estimate of
27?

How to divide a decimal number by another decimal numbers:

1. ESTIMATE YOUR QUOTIENT FIRST!


2.

If the divisor is not a whole number, move decimal point to right to make it a whole
number and move decimal point in dividend the same number of places.

3.

Divide as usual. Keep dividing until the answer ends or go two decimal places

4.

Put decimal point directly above decimal point in the dividend.

5.

Check your answer. Multiply quotient by divisor. Does it equal the dividend

Move the decimal in the dividend the same amount


to the right

Estimate!
17 7 = about
2

Move the decimal in the


divisor to the right until it is a
whole number.

Think!
Is 2.6 close to my
estimate of 2?
YES! So my
answer is
logical

Example 2:

Estimate:
55 3 = about
18

Is 16.27 close to my
estimate of 18? YES so
my answer is logical!
How to divide a decimal number by a whole number

1. ESTIMATE YOUR QUOTIENT FIRST!


2. If the divisor is a whole number, place the decimal in the dividend directly
3.
4.

above the place value spot in the quotient.


Divide as usual. Keep dividing until the answer ends or go two decimal places
Check your answer. Multiply quotient by divisor. Does it equal the dividend

Estimate:
18 36 = (or
0.5)

Check it!

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