Showing posts with label Decimals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decimals. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Decimal Skill Practice

Introduction of decimal skill practice:
Decimal is one of the types of the numbers system. The point is called decimals. Here we are going to discuss about adding decimals, subtracting decimals, multiplication decimals and dividing decimals. And we are going to learn how to improve our decimal skills and practice problems here .Decimals are also fractional numbers. For example 0.5 is the same as the fraction 5/10.


Decimal skill practice:


There are 4 different types of decimal skills.

That is ,

Adding and subtracting decimal skills.
Multiplication decimal skills.
Division decimal skills.


Addition and subtracting decimal skill practice:

Its commonly used to find the total of two numbers. Generally addition and subtraction of decimals is totally based on adding and subtracting whole numbers. But here we need to concentrate to place the decimals

Example of adding decimals:

Example 1:

Add the decimal value: 12.74, 15.11

Solution:

4 2 . 15

1 3.  1 1    (+)

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5 5  .  2 6



Example of subtracting decimals:

Example 2:

Subtract the decimal value 243.87, 23.56.

Solution:

3 2 1 . 8 7

1 5 6 . 5 6   (-)

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1 6  5 . 3  1


Example problem for multiplication and division decimal skill practice :


Example of multiplication decimals:

Multiplication is a product of two terms.

Example 1:

Multiply 7.9 * 1.3

Step 1: First remove the decimal point.

Step 2: And then perform multiplication operation.

Step 3: lastly add the decimal point in the answer.

Solution:

79

13   (*)

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2 3 7

7 9

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1 0 2 7

Answer: Form the given question we have two decimal points. So we need to put the 2 decimal points to the answer So, the answer is 10.27.

Dividing decimals:

Its also the equal of whole number division.

Example 2:

10.5 divided by 0.5

Step1: Convert the decimal values in to the whole number.

Step 2: So, multiply 10 with both top and bottom.

Step 3: `(10.5 times 10)/(0.5 times 10)` .So we get `(105)/(5)`

Step 4: Here we can perform the division process.

Step 5: Therefore the answer is 21.