document.write( "Question 1025986: equivalent decimal of 5/10 and steps explaining it please \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #641262 by Edwin McCravy(20055)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "5/10 means to divide 10 into 5 like this\r\n" );
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document.write( "Since 10 won't go into 5, or rather, it goes 0 times,\r\n" );
document.write( "put a 0 above the 5\r\n" );
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document.write( "   0\r\n" );
document.write( "10)5\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now put a decimal and a 0\r\n" );
document.write( "after the 5, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   0  \r\n" );
document.write( "10)5.0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now also put a decimal above that decimal, like this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   0. \r\n" );
document.write( "10)5.0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now think of that 5.0 as if it had no decimal and was \r\n" );
document.write( "just 50.  Then 10 divided into 50 gives 5.\r\n" );
document.write( "So put 5 above the 0.\r\n" );
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document.write( "   0.5\r\n" );
document.write( "10)5.0\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then when we finish the division by multiplying we\r\n" );
document.write( "get 50 to go under the 50, leaving room for the decimal:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   0.5\r\n" );
document.write( "10)5.0\r\n" );
document.write( "   5 0\r\n" );
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document.write( "And when we subtract we get 0 remainder, so we are done.\r\n" );
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document.write( "   0.5\r\n" );
document.write( "10)5.0\r\n" );
document.write( "   5 0\r\n" );
document.write( "     0\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer is 0.5 that we read at the top of the division.\r\n" );
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