How do you find the quotient of 22.4 divided by 0.5?
1 Answer
Jun 11, 2018
The "quotient" is the result of the division operation.
Explanation:
For this example:
In long-division form it looks like this:
To do a long division we move the decimal point of the denominator to make it a whole number, and move the numerator a corresponding amount to keep it equal.
This is like writing the original ratio or fraction form as:
Performing the division we obtain: