Decimal Division

Study Notes

Owen has $2.80 in dimes, which can be calculated by the equation 2.80 ÷ 0.1 = 28 dimes.
Melanie rides her bicycle 42.4 miles in 10 days and rides 4.24 miles each day.
Reasonable estimates for the quotient 7.41 ÷ 0.08 using powers of 10 and compatible numbers include 70 ÷ 1 = 70 and 720 ÷ 8 = 90.
For cell phone plans, plan 1 costs $49.99 for 6 GB, plan 2 costs $75.99 for 9 GB, and plan 3 costs $34.99 for 3 GB.
The plan with the lowest cost per gigabyte is plan 3.
2.8 ÷ 4 = 0.7 equation is represented by the decimal grids shown.
The quotient of 0.20 ÷ 5 is 0.04.
An equivalent representation of 1.8 ÷ 3 is 18 tenths ÷ 3.
Lidia uses 1.35 pounds of meat to make 5 sandwiches, and each sandwich will have 0.27 pounds of meat.
The quotient of 2 ÷ 0.4 is 5.
Darius runs 15 miles, running 0.2 miles each minute, and it takes him 75 minutes to run 15 miles.
The division problem equivalent to 8.96 ÷ 0.32 is 896 ÷ 32.
Matthew completed a 26.4-mile race in 2.2 hours, running 12 miles each hour.
Randy's statement is incorrect. The correct response is that 9 ÷ 0.06 and 90 ÷ 6 need to be considered in terms of how the decimal point affects the numbers being divided to evaluate its truth.
A pizzeria has 4 pounds of tomato sauce and each pizza is expected to used 0.25 pound of tomato sauce which gives a total of 16 pizzas worth of sauce. Therefore, the pizzeria has enough tomato sauce to make 10 pizzas, because 4 / 0.25 = 16 and 16 > 10.
Ken wants to buy tiles to cover 20 square yards of flooring and prefers to use fewer than 60 tiles where tile A covers 0.1 square yard, tile B covers 0.25 square yard, and tile C covers 0.4 square yard where for tile A it takes 200 tiles to cover the floor, tile B takes 80 tiles to cover the floor and tile C requires 50 tiles to cover the floor so only tile C allows him to use fewer than 60 tiles.