What do you do with the remainder at the end of a short dividion question with decimals? I am in grade 6 and I am just learning this. Thank you!😀

Hello!

Ok lets get down to this.

I don't think you can do anything with remainders on decimals but you can use it on fractions and then convert them.

For example,

\(\frac{8}{5}\)

The answer would be...

1 remainder 3

So, you can put that into a fraction...

\(7\frac{1}{5}\)

Then convert it to a decimal...

\(\frac{36}{5} = 7.2\)

-Complex

I'm probaly forgeting a key princapal or a shorter way.

If the remainder is a decimal there are a few options of what to do with it.

      1) If the decimal has zero at the end you automatically remove them.

      2) You can round to the nearest whole number.

      3) You can round to the nearest tenth,hundredth, thousandth,etc.

      4) You can also convert to a fraction, or mixed number.

      5) Also if your dividend and divisor are decimals you can move the decimals place to the left until it dividend becomes a whole number. 

                              - Sylvia