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5th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
Course: 5th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY) > Unit 2
Lesson 7: Topic G: Partial quotients and multi-digit decimal division- Estimating decimal division
- Estimating with dividing decimals
- Dividing decimals
- Division strategies for decimal quotients
- Multi-digit division strategies for decimals
- Divide whole numbers with decimal quotients: 78÷12
- Divide whole numbers to get a decimal (2-digit divisors)
- Pattern when dividing by tenths and hundredths
- Divide whole numbers by 0.1 or 0.01
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Estimating decimal division
Estimating in decimal division involves rounding numbers to make calculations easier. Practice rounding decimals to the nearest whole number or a simple fraction, then perform the division. This won't yield an exact result, but a close approximation, which can be useful in many real-life situations.
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- dosent eproximentily mean exactly ?(7 votes)
- ''approximately'' actually means "roughly" or "about" or in the ballpark of . For example 3.9 is ''approximately'' 4.(26 votes)
- How would I do two numbers behind the decimal? They don't go into that here :/(10 votes)
- Do you mean numbers such as 2.45 and 67.41?(12 votes)
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- so if you are rounding a number when it is in the thousands place, are you supposed to round to the next hundreds place or to the closest thousands place?(6 votes)
- It’s the next hundreds place(4 votes)
- Why is it saying the same thing over and over again?(4 votes)
- wait so the estimate is 40?(5 votes)
- Yes, 80 divided by 2 is 40.(1 vote)
- what is 20.57 x 50.75 ni'zyre(4 votes)
- How do I use compatible numbers to estimate?(4 votes)
- What do you do to transform the decimals so you can make them into like 112 (that was random) or something like that?(4 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] What we're
going to do in this video is get a little bit of practice estimating dividing with decimals. So for example, we wanna
figure out approximately, that's what these kind of
squiggly equal sign means. This means approximately equal. So what does 80 divided by
1.94 approximately equal? So we wanna estimate what this is. So pause this video and see
if you can figure it out. So before we even look at these choices, how would we try to do this in our head? Well, we could say 1.94, it's
hard to do that in our head to divide it into 80 but
it's awfully close to two. So we could say this is close to, this is approximately
equal to 80 divided by two 'cause once again, 1.94
is awfully close to two and then this is easy to figure out. That is going to be equal to 40. So our first expression, you could say is approximately equal to 40. Is it exactly equal to 40? No but it's pretty close. So I would select that choice. Let's do another one. So pause this video and see if you can figure
out the approximation. What is 209 divided by
three roughly equal to? So once again, here we don't
have any clear decimals. If we were to divide it out, we would get a decimal
answer for our quotient but what we could do is
well, is either one of these, is for example 209, is it close to a multiple of
three that we might recognize? Well, you might immediately recognize, well, if you think about
multiples of three, you think in terms of, well, three times six is
18, three times seven is 21. Well, this is close to 210. So this is approximately
equal to 210 divided by three. Now, why is this interesting? Well, 210 is just 21 times 10. So if 21 divided by three is seven, 210 divided by three is
going to be equal to 70. So once again, 209 is pretty close to 210. Remember, we're just estimating and so 209 divided by three would approximately be equal to 70 which is that choice right over there. Let's do one more example. So once again, pause the video and figure out what 6.86 divided by 1.12 is approximately equal to. Alright, so here I would just try to round to the nearest whole number and see if that helps
my division in my head. So 6.86 is approximately seven if we round up to the nearest whole number and if I say seven divided by, and if we round down, 1.12, seven divided by one, this is much easier for
us to do in our head. So that is going to be seven. Now, once again, it's
very important to realize these are estimations. It's not going to be
exactly equal to seven but it's definitely gonna
be much closer to seven than 70, 700 or 7000.