 | Pittsburgh Board of Public Education (Pa.) - Arithmetic - 1928 - 230 pages
...have in the bank? 7. Multiplication of decimals. a. Multiply as in whole numbers and then point off as many decimal places in the product as there are decimal places in both the multiplicand and the multiplier. Any zeroes at the right of the answer may be dropped. .2 1.2 .008... | |
 | Mathematics - 1999 - 164 pages
...more of the factors contain a decimal, multiply as though the numbers wer e whole numbers. Mark off as many decimal places in the product as there are decimal places in the factors together. Practice problems. Multiply as indicated: 1. 3.7 x 0.02 2. 0.45 x 0.7 3. 6.5... | |
 | Gary R. Jensen - Education - 2003 - 402 pages
...The rule is to multiply the decimal expansions as if there were no decimal point present. and then point off from the right as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multiplier and the multiplicand combined. For example 6.13 x7.24 2452 4 . 613 1226 2 613 tens... | |
 | Milo Burdette Hillegas, Thomas Henry Briggs - Education - 1927 - 628 pages
...multiplying by a decimal, multiply as with whole numbers, and then, beginning at the right, point off as many decimal places in the product as there are decimal places in the two numbers together. Thus in the case of the silo Edward had 1+1 decimal places, and so pointed... | |
 | Steam engineering - 1914 - 1114 pages
...the rule of common mathematics for finding the location of the decimal point, we point off as many multiplicand and multiplier, which, in this instance is six; theiefore the answer to the problem is... | |
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Multiply as in the multiplication of integers, and point off" as many decimal places in the product as there are decimal places in both multiplicand and multiplier. 
