Practice Dividing Decimals in Math
Use these practice problems to test your method after reviewing the concept explanation and worked examples.
Quick Recap
Dividing numbers that contain decimal points, typically by converting the divisor to a whole number (multiplying both divisor and dividend by a power of 10) and then performing long division.
If you want to split \7.20 equally among 3 people, you're dividing a decimal. The trick for harder problems is: if the divisor is 0.4, multiply both numbers by 10 to get 72 \div 4 = 18$. You haven't changed the answer—just made it easier to compute.
Example 1
easyCalculate \(3.6 \div 4\).
Example 2
mediumCalculate \(5.4 \div 0.6\).
Example 3
easyCalculate \(2.8 \div 4\).
Example 4
mediumCalculate \(7.2 \div 0.9\).