Decimal Operation Lesson

Line up by the decimal point

Add or subtract normal

Bring decimal point down

Ignore the decimal

Multiply normal

place the decimal

*** If there are 3 numbers behind the decimal in the factors in total, then there will be 3 numbers behind the decimal in the product

EX: 3.56 x 1.2 would have three numbers after the decimal in the product

Bring decimal straight up to the quotient

Divide normal

Move decimal to right until the divisor is a whole

Do same thing to the dividend