HELP! What do you do with the remainder on a long division decimal problem!?

Question

Okay, My teacher asked me to ask this. What do you do with the remainder on a decimal long division problem? Do you add it on? Divide it again? If you can't divide it again then what? PLEASE HELP US!!!!!

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I mean like, 578.97 divided by 5, (I just chose random numbers) And if it was left down to the .07 divided by 5, one 5 fits into it, and theres .02 left, what now?

I'm in my challenged math class.....

Answer 1

Just drop down a zero and keep going:

In your example you should get 115.794

.....115.794
5 ) 578.97
.....5
.......7
.......5
.......28
.......25
.........39
.........35
...........47
...........45
.............20
.............20

Answer 2

Yes, you can divide it again.

For instance, 10 divided by 3 is 3 with a remainder of 1.

Mathmatically it would look like this: 10/3.

If you wanted to make a mixed fraction out of it, you would determine that 3 goes into 10 3 times with a remainder of 1:
10/3 = 3+

Now divide the remainder (1) by 3 again and you get:
1/3

Combined with the whole portion above:
10/3 = 3 and 1/3

As you get older, your teachers will probably expect you to not use mixed numbers and leave the answer as 10/3.

Answer 3

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HELP! What do you do with the remainder on a long division decimal problem!?
Okay, My teacher asked me to ask this. What do you do with the remainder on a decimal long division problem? Do you add it on? Divide it again? If you can't divide it again then what? PLEASE HELP US!!!!!

*US as in my classroom

Answer 4

put it over the number dividing..for example 3 divided by 2. it goes in once. and the remained is 1, so you put 1 over 2 and youre final answer is 1 and 1/2..... this will work for decimals...just put the remained over the numbering doing the dividing...then turn it into a decimal and at it to the whole number

Answer 5

the remainder can be written as a fraction where the remainder is the numerator and the divisor is the denominator, or it can be divided out and be written as a decimal fraction.

Answer 6

move the decimal point two the rght 2 places for both numbers so you would get 12.12 divided by 5 make it into 1212 divided by 500 you get 2.424 as an answer. 12.12 divided by 5 = 2.424 also

Answer 7

i think you change the remainder into a fraction over 100 and then add the numerator onto the end of the answer

Answer 8

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