Multiplying and dividing decimals
By Katie
Multiplying Decimals
You might not realize it, but you multiply decimals everyday. If you are a server and you take peoples orders you multiply their food prices. When you go to the gas station and pay for your gas you multiply the number of gallons your car holds times the price of each gallon. You also multiply decimals with money.You multiply decimals with money when you have to pay the bills. Like when you are paying for your house you multiply how much it costs per week to get the total per month.
Money
You multiply decimals with money when you have to pay the bills
Gas
You multiply decimals with gas to find out the number of gallons your car holds times the price for each gallon.
Waitress or Server
You multiply decimals when you are a server because when you take peoples orders more than one person could eat the same food or the same price food and if that happened you would have to multiply the price by how many people that ordered it.
Dividing Decimals
You might not realize it ,but you divide decimals everyday. If you are at a party and you have candy that you need to put into bags you divide how much candy there is by how many bags there are. If you are running you can divide decimals because if you ran a certain amount of miles in two days and burned a certain amount of calories you would divide the amount of calories by two to see how many calories you burned each day.
Party bags
You divide decimals when you are at a party and you have 15.00 pieces of candy that you need to put into 5 party bags you need to divide 500 by 50.
Money
You divide decimals with money when you owe money and you have to split it between two friends and they are each owed the same price. To divide the owed money you have to divide the total money by two.
Running
You divide decimals when you are running. Let's say that you ran four miles in two days and you burned 250.5 calories you would divide 250.5 by two to get how many calories you burned in each day.
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