Question

How do you work out 6 divided by 0.5?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer:

12

Step-by-step explanation:

One way is to get rid of the decimal in the denominator by multiplying it by an appropriate number first, but then the numerator must be multiplied by the same thing, of course.

Here, since there is one decimal place, we might multiply numerator and denominator by 10 to get something more manageable:

 6 / 0.5  =  ( 6 × 10 ) / ( 0.5 × 10 ) = 60 / 5

Now that there's no decimal, the problem seems less difficult:

60 / 5 = 12

Comment:

If we're a bit smarter, we might see that we could use a number smaller than 10, namely 2.  Then we go straight to the answer:

6 / 0.05 = ( 6 × 2 ) / ( 0.5 × 2 ) = 12 / 1 = 12