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Thank you We sneak Dividing complicated decimals Allah shmoop decimals
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Why'd they have to go and make things so complicated
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The good news is that so called complicated decimals on
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ly look complicated They're like taxes They might seem complicated
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but really all you have to do is pay the
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guy at h and r block two hundred bucks to
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do them for you Done and done We've already learned
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how to divide one decimal by another But what about
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when they're really long All we have to do is
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tackle it the same way we would a really tough
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looking running back head first So say we need to
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divide zero point zero zero three to nine eight five
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one one seven by zero point two nine one seven
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five three And we accidentally jumped into the pool Was
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our scientific calculator Well how do we figure this thing
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out by hand Well we can start by moving the
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decimal place And our divisor is many spots as we
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need in order to make it a whole number in
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this case if we move it One two three four
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five six pots to the right We get two hundred
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ninety one thousand seven Hundred fifty three Now we move
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the decimal of the dividend the same number of times
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we move the decimal of the divisor and we get
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three thousand two hundred ninety eight point eight five one
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one seven Our problem is now become three thousand two
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hundred ninety eight point eight five one one seven divided
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by two hundred ninety one thousand seven Fifty three still
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looks like something capitals up after getting too excited but
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at least we're no longer fighting by decimal From here
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we do the usual long division thing Move the decimal
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place directly upward and eventually we get point Oh one
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one three oh seven We're definitely killing a tree or
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two with his long division problems this intense but at
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least now we know how to get there Sorry tree 00:01:45.961 --> [endTime] way
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