Question

What is 1.71 divided by 6?

Answer 1

0.285

Explanation:

Whenever you have a decimal number to be divided by another decimal or, in this case, a whole number, you should multiply both numbers by a whole number 10, 100, 1000, etc.) so you can get whole numbers to divide.

`1.71 : 6=?`
`1.71` has two decimal digits: 7 and 1. Which number when we multiply 1.71 will get 171? The number is 100. By 100, we will multiply 6 too.

`1.71 : 6 |*100 => 171:600`

Now, you can do division easily:

`171:600=0.285`
....`1710`
`-1200`

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.......`5100` (the result of 1710-1200 = 510 but 0 is added)
..`-4800`

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.........`3000` /the result of 5100-4800=300 but 0 is added)
.....`-3000`

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`0`

Zeros are added in order to make a number divisible.