Question

Write the rounded dividend, the rounded divisor and estimated quotient, then find the exact quotient. How do I work out this problem?

Please, how do I work out this problem?

Answer 1

See below for how to approach problems like this

Explanation:

Without numbers to work with, I'll make up something and show how to do it.

Let's say we want to divide 10.27 (the dividend) by 2.3 (the divisor). I can write that as:

`10.27 -: 1.85`

To do that exactly, I'd need a calculator. To estimate what I'd get, I can round the dividend and divisor and end up with an estimate of the quotient:

`10 -: 2 = 5`

The exact quotient, from my calculator, is:

`10.27 -: 1.85=5.5bar(513)`