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Lesson 43: Multiplying and dividing with powers of 10Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
CCSS.Math:
Sal multiplies and divides decimals by powers of 10.
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- Wha would be the answer if it was 624 divided by blank equals 62.4(19 votes)
- 624 ÷ 10 = 62.4
It's the same idea as multiplication, but backwards.
To check my answer you can do:
62.4 x 10 = ?(31 votes)
- For the people that are still confused:
Multiplication:
10 x 10 = 100
100 x 10 = 1000 or 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000
Division:
1000 / 10 = 100
100 / 10 = 10
10 / 10 = 1
Hope this helps(23 votes) - what would the answer be if 60024 was divided by blank and equals 600.24 and then multiplied it by 2 again(8 votes)
- To get from 60024 to 600.24, we move the decimal point 2 places to the left.
Moving 2 places to the left is the same as dividing by 100.
So 60024 divided by 100 is 600.24. So the number that goes in the blank is 100.(12 votes)
- Thanks Sal for explaining, but I was wondering if you could do a problem on bigger decimals? Or give a more clear explanation? Let me give some examples.
1. 124.95/10.
so to solve this problem we can break it up into steps. First you have to figure out what ten to the power of two means. To do that you multiply 10x10 and that equals 100. So that would be 124.95/100. So in order to do that you have to put it in a division problem and divide. After that your answer should be 1.2495.
If my answer doesn't explain correctly, I’m sorry! I hope I make you understand if you don’t.(13 votes) - I don't get it help me!(7 votes)
- The power, (the tiny number on top of the '10') is how many zeros the answer will have. So, if you were to solve the equation 10^2, you would know the answer would have 2 zeros, so, the answer is 100. The answer will always start with 1.(10 votes)
- i sill kind of don't under stand.(8 votes)
- The pattern for multiplying or dividing by a power of 10 is simple. When we multiply by a power of 10 (such as 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc.), the number of digit zeros in the power of 10 is the number of places we move the decimal point to the right. The same is true when we divide by a power of 10, except that we move the decimal point to the left instead of right.
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- What would 32.689 divided by 10 to the power of 2 be?(6 votes)
- the answer would be 3268.9(1 vote)
- Thank you for helping us learn!(5 votes)
- I'm atand I still don't understand how you would divide by a power of 10😐 4:14(5 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] In another video, we introduce ourselves to the idea of powers of 10. We saw that if I were to
say 10 to the first power, that means that we are just
really going to take one 10. If we have 10 to the second power, that means that we're gonna take two 10s, so a 10 and a 10, and we're gonna multiply them and so that's going to be 100. If we take 10 to the third power, that's going to be three
10s multiplied together, which is equal to 1000, which is also one
followed by three zeroes. So you're already
starting to see a pattern. What we're going to do in this video is think about patterns when
we multiply arbitrary things or divide arbitrary things by powers of 10. So let's start with a number. Let's say I will start with 2.3. And let's first just multiply
by 10 to the first power. Well, that's the same thing
as just multiplying it by 10, and we've seen already
when you multiply by 10, you shift all the digits
one place to the left. So the two, which is the ones place, one's up in the 10s place, and then three, which
is in the tenths place will end up in the ones place. So this is just going to be equal to 23. And it's always good to do a
little bit of a reality check. If I just had two and if
were to multiply it by 10, you'd say okay, that's about 20, so it makes sense that 2.3 times 10 is 23. But let's keep going. Now let's multiply 2.3 not
by 10 to the first power, which is just 10, but let's multiply it times
10 to the second power. What is that going to be? Pause this video and see
if you can figure that out. All right, well 10 to the second power, we already know that's equal to 100, and so when you multiply by 100
or you multiply by 10 twice, you're just going to shift
every digit two places to the left. So let me draw some places here. So the thing that is in
the ones place will go to the hundreds place, and the thing that is in the tenths place will go to the 10s place. And so this two will now be two hundreds. This 3/10 will now be three 10s and we now have zero ones. And then if we were to
multiply by 10 again, so if we were to say 2.3 times 10 to the third power, well then we're going to
shift everything three places to the left. 10 to the third power. This is the same thing
as multiplying by 1000. So 2.3 times 10 to the third, the two is going to be shifted
three places to the left, so the two is going to become
2000, which makes sense. So it's going to be 2000. The 3/10 is going to shift
two places to the left, so it's going to be 300, and then we now have
zero 10s and zero ones. So the pattern that you've probably seen is if you multiply a number
times 10 to some power, you are just shifting the digits
to the left by that power. And if we divide by a power of 10, the same thing would happen, but we would now be
shifting our digits' places to the right. So for example, what is 2.3 divided by, divided by 10 to the first power? Pause this video and
try to figure that out. Well 10 to the first power
is the same thing as 10, so when we divide by 10, all of our digits are just
going to shift one place to the right, so this two is going to
end up in the tenths place and the three is going to end
up in the hundredths place. So this is going to give us 0.23. Two is now in the tenths, three is now in the hundredths, but we could keep going. What if we were to say 2.3 divided by 10 to the second power? Pause this video, try to
figure out what that is. Well in this situation, we are going to shift all the
digits two places to the right and so let me put my places here, so that's the ones, tenths, hundredths, thousandths. And so the thing that's
in the ones place is two. It won't just go to the tenths. It'll go to the hundredths place, which you don't quite see here. It's right over there. So the two is going to show up here. And then the three is going to shift two places to the right, and so it's going to end up there, and we have zero ones and we have zero 10s. So you're probably already
seeing the pattern here again. Whatever the exponent is, if you're dividing by 10 to that power, you're going to shift that power, the exponent that many times you're going to shift the
digit that many places to the right.