SOLUTION: Please I need help the homework says to use base ten blocks to divide these decimals, using the rectangle model of multiplication and division. Before you start, think: which numbe

Question 709282: Please I need help the homework says to use base ten blocks to divide these decimals, using the rectangle model of multiplication and division. Before you start, think: which numberis an area, and which is a lenght? How can you make 0.1 of a square meter. To let you know our professor does not want to solve the problems as a decimal, so we have to change the problem into a fraction and then solve. I need help with two problems
A.) 0.24 / 1.2
B.) 0.24 / 2
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A.) 0.24 / 1.2
As fractions
/
invert the dividing fraction and multiply
*
we cancel 12 into 24 and 10 into 100, leaving
reduces to
:
B.) 0.24 / 2
As fractions
/
invert the dividing fraction and multiply
*
reduces to
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