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Algebra basics
Unit 1: Lesson 8
Operations with decimals- Adding decimals: 9.087+15.31
- Adding decimals: 0.822+5.65
- Adding decimals: thousandths
- Subtracting decimals: 9.57-8.09
- Subtracting decimals: 39.1 - 0.794
- Subtracting decimals: thousandths
- Multiplying decimals example
- Multiplying challenging decimals
- Decimal multiplication place value
- Dividing decimals with hundredths
- Dividing by a multi-digit decimal
- Dividing decimals: hundredths
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Subtracting decimals: 39.1 - 0.794
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In this example where we subtract decimals we do so up to the thousandths place. It's a little tricky, but not if we do it together. Created by Sal Khan.
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0 is one of the most important numbers but we don't realize it.(17 votes)
The number 0 has special properties. Any number plus 0 is itself, any number minus 0 is itself, 0 minus any number is the number’s opposite, any number times 0 is 0, 0 divided by any nonzero number is 0, any nonzero number divided by 0 is undefined (positively or negatively infinite), and 0 divided by 0 is indeterminate.
In algebra, getting 0 on one side of a quadratic equation (that is, an equation with 2 as the highest exponent on the variable) is necessary in order to solve the quadratic by factoring or using the quadratic formula.
If you decide to study calculus later on, you will see that derivatives (slopes) of functions are set equal to 0 in order maximize or minimize functions. You will also frequently encounter the indeterminate expression 0/0 in limit problems.
If you decide to take linear algebra or analysis later on, you will see that 0 comes up amazingly often!(6 votes)
when we add subtract multiply do we line up the deciml points(7 votes)
Subtracting decimals uses the same setup as adding decimals: line up the decimal points, and then subtract. In cases where you are subtracting two decimals that extend to different place values, it often makes sense to add extra zeros to make the two numbers line up—this makes the subtraction a bit easier to follow.(2 votes)
Will you ever have 2 numbers that will have 2 decimals. For example: 123.456.778(3 votes)
i dont think so, it doesn't make sense since I haven't seen a video with two decimals(2 votes)
- The most important step is to line up the decimal points first!
Once they are lined up, the rest is easy. Write 0’s for any missing digits, then subtract like you would with whole numbers.
In the answer, put the decimal point directly under the lined-up decimal points.
Have a blessed, wonderful day!(2 votes)
- when were numbers first used in history?(4 votes)
see www.vedicsciences.net/articles/history-of-numbers.html(2 votes)
what is the most complex question you can do(2 votes)
In the video Sal shows the hundredths place borrows 1 tenth from 11 tenths in the tenths place, then the hundredths place turns out 10 tenths, shouldn't it be 1 tenth? Because we are taken just 1 tenth, the tenths place got 10 tenths after that, because of the hundredths place took just 1 tenth. What is the explanation?(3 votes)
Basically you know the tenths place and hundredths place on a decimal? 0.12, 1 is the tenth place and two is the hundredth. This goes the same for fractions. 1/100 you say it as one hundredth same goes for the hundredth in the example decimal (0.12) except the hundredth is 2 so it'd be equivalent to 2/100. Does that help?(2 votes)
why do we have to do this(2 votes)- We use decimals every day while dealing with money, weight, length etc. Decimal numbers are used in situations where more precision is required than the whole numbers can provide. For example, when we calculate our weight on the weighing machine, we do not always find the weight equal to a whole number on the scale.(2 votes)
I don't understand how he's regrouping here. How does taking one off of 39 give you eleven tenths?(2 votes)- if your top number is bigger than the bottom number, then the number will be 11 for 1, 12 for 2, 13 for 3 etc. But if you have a similar situation for the number beside you, then you have to take 1 of 11 to make it 10.(2 votes)
How and why are the decimals are like that?(2 votes)
Video transcript
Let's try to calculate
39.1 minus 0.794, and so pause the video
and try this on your own. All right, I'm assuming you've
given a go at it, so now let's work through it together. So I'm going to rewrite this. It's 39.1 minus-- I'm going to
line up the decimals so that I have the right place values
below the right place values-- minus-- this
0 is in the ones place, so I'll put it in the
ones place-- 0.794. And now we're ready to subtract. Now, how do we subtract
4 from nothingness here, and 9 from nothingness here? Well, the same thing
as nothing is a 0. And so now we can start to
think about how to subtract. Well, we still have the problem. Well, we're trying
to subtract 4 from 0, so we're trying to
subtract 9 from 0. So what we could do
is take this one tenth and try to regroup it
into the hundredths place and the thousandths place. So let's think about this. If we make this-- actually
that's not actually going to solve our problem. Well we could do
it, but then we're going to have zero
tenths, and we're still going to have a problem here. So actually let me
go to the ones place. So let me get rid
of a ones, so that's eight ones, which is
going to be 10 tenths. So that's going to now--
we're going to have 11 tenths. The 10 tenths from here
plus 1 is 11 tenths. Now let's take one
of those tenths so that we have 10 tenths,
and give it to the hundredths. So that's going to
be 10 hundredths. And now let's take one
of those hundredths-- so now we have nine hundredths--
and give it to the thousandths. So that's going to
be 10 thousandths. Now we're ready to subtract. So 10-- let me do this in
yellow-- 10 minus 4 is 6. 9 minus 9 is 0. 10 minus 7 is 3. We have our decimal point. 8 minus 0 is 8. And then we have 3
minus nothing is 3. So we're done, 38.306.