Finding out ate some of a decimal point percentage of a number

Question

Indonesia school, 0.583 of the students participated in a club. If there are 1000 students Indonesia school, how many participated in the club?

Answer 1

To figure out the number of students, you would multiply

(1000)(.583)

To multiply by 1000, move the decimal over 3 places to the right. This is because there are 3 zeros in 1000. To multiply by 10, you move the decimal one place to the right, 100 would be 2 decimals to the right.

(1000)(.583) = 583 students participate in a club