Dividing a small number by a large number?

Question

okay how would I figure out 85 divided by 105 without a calculator

the answer is .8095 but I need to know how to do this without a calculator

I don't understand how long division would apply

oh okay that makes sense

Answer 1

If you add a decimal point and extra zeroes after, you can divide the two. In your example, you would be dividing 85.0 by 105. You can see that 105 goes into 850 8 times with 10 as the leftover. Carry down another 0, and you have 100/105. This goes into 0 times. Bring down another 0, divide again, etc.

Answer 2

it does.. if you put a decimal on the answer and add a zero to the end of 85 it is divisible.. then it starts with everything behind the decimal.. its just like when you have a remainder and you need to keep dividing.

Answer 3

what you do is pretend that 85 is 85.0000000, and you divide that way. gets pretty long, but that's how it works.

Answer 4

Try this method

==> Any small number's are divided by Larger Number follow these steps

Step1:

first convert numerator as a large compared in to denominator.

(i.e) question is

85 / 105 ==> multiply both numerator and denominator by 10.

(85 * 10) / (105*10) ==> You get 850 / ( 105 * 10 )

Step2:

now you divide 850 by 105

( 850 / 105 ) * (1/10) ==> 8.0952380 / 10 ==> 0.80952380

You got it..........

Answer 5

Don't they teach long division in schools any longer?
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