How do you divide a decimal from a decimal?

Question

divide 1.79 by 10.5

Answer 1

To solve any math question, there may be more than one ways to solve it.

1.79 by 10.5,

multiple both of them by 100 which give us 179 by 1050 and then divide it, 179/1050 = 0.17047---

Answer 2

Divide 1.79 by 10.5

You really only need to multiply each number by a power of ten that will make the divisor an integer.  In this case, the divisor is 10.5, so multiply by 10 / 10:

1.79 * 10   =   17.9
10.5 * 10        105

The long division would then look like this:

          0.1704...
105 | 17.9000
         10 5
           7 40
           7 35
               500
               420
                 800
                   ...

Answer 3

If you feel that dividing by decimal points is too much of a hassle, remove them by multiplying by exponents of 10. For example:

1.79/10.5 = 179/1050.

The rest is simple.

Answer 4

10.5 is equal to the fraction 21/2, so you can multiply 1.79 by two and divide by 21.