SOLUTION: Can someone please help me, I'm having problem with this math problem can you please help me I have to divide 38/36.493 please help me????? I don't get it please I need help

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Question 876807: Can someone please help me, I'm having problem with this math problem can you please help me I have to divide 38/36.493 please help me?????
I don't get it please I need help
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The divisor must be a whole number. HOW?
Multiply the quotient by 1. HOW?
By using powers of ten!

%2838%2F36.493%29%281000%2F1000%29=highlight_green%2838000%2F36498%29

Now you have a dividend of 38000.00000000000000000000000...
and a divisor of 36498.

Setup to prepare for ordinary long division as you have learned it, but write the decimal of the dividend directly above where it is, in the quotient place. Do your division process one digit of dividend at a time. Note that when you begin this, you will have a 1 at the start, because 38000/36498 is 1 and some remainder. You continue, and the decimal placement is already accounted.