When most folks use a pocket calculator to perform some mathematical task like division, they rarely pause to ponder what's actually going on “under-the-hood”; instead, they simply accept the result ...

Equivalent fractions can be used to divide numbers by decimals. For example, \(4 \div 0.2\) is the same as \(\frac{4}{0.2}\). First, note that 0.2 has one decimal place, so multiply the numerator and ...