What is 12 divided by 0.15?

2 Answers
Jun 7, 2016

12 divided by 0.15 is 80

Explanation:

120.15
XXX=120015

XXX=4005

XXX=80

Jun 7, 2016

It is 80.

Explanation:

You can simply solve this using a calculator, but we are on Socratic, so we have to do something more fun!

The only good idea I had is to write 0.15 as 15100.
Then you are asking how to do

1215100=1210015.

Now we can simplify the common factors writing 12=322, 100=2255 and 15=35.

1210015=322225535=22225

and, because I am very lazy, I know only how to do multiplications for 2 and for 10, so I write it as

22210=810=80.