You've learned how to solve division problems that have a decimal point in the divisor (the number you're dividing by) only. Now you'll practice adding zeros in the divisor as placeholders.
Here's a multiplication problem. The answer has two digits.
The answer must have the same number of decimal places as the two numbers we multiply. Here, the first number has three decimal places, and the second number has two. Our answer should have five decimal places. To fill these empty slots, we must use zeros. We will add three of them.
You'll do the same thing with other division problems.
Here's 4 tenths divided by 80.
You can add zeros to 4 tenths without changing the value.
Now write the decimal point in the answer and divide.
Because 80 doesn't go into 4, write a zero above the 4.
But 80 does go into 400. It goes in 5 times. So write 5 above the last digit of 400.
Remember, a decimal number must have zeros in these empty spaces.
