Help! I forgot how to divide...lol..?

Question

Can someone please walk me through this question!? It been years since I have done a question like this and I forget the process! I need to do this without a calculator!! Much appreciated!!!!! Thanks in advance! The question is 0.5/250

Answer 1

I know!  I know!  0.002  Yay me!

Answer 2

move the decimal over once to to the right so you get a nice even number so it would be

5/2500

5 goes into 25 5 times, add two zeroes

500!

Answer 3

0.5 is 1/2

so 1/2 / 250 would be (when you divide multiply by the reciprocal)

1/ (250 * 2) = 1/ 500  = 0.002

Answer 4

The normal setup for a dividing problem looks like this

http://www.math.com/school/subject1/imag...

In your case the number 0.5 would go on the inside and the 250 would go on the outside.

Anything under 250  is going to show a 0 value...so since your first number is 0 and is obviously smaller than 250 you would place a 0  on top. Bring the decimal point up. 5 is also smaller than 250 so you put another 0.  

To extend your number place a 0 next to the 5. Now,  50 is smaller than 250 so you place another 0 up top and add another 0 to your number. Now, 500 IS bigger than 250.    250 * 2 = 500 so you would place a 2 on top.

This makes your answer 0.002

Answer 5

Well, you can't divide a decimal by a whole number, so you have to multiply the 0.5 by 10 to make it a whole number. You need to do the same to both sides of the equation to balance it out, so you also multiply 250 by ten. The problem is now 5/2,500. The answer is then .002

Answer 6

Do 0.5    0.1

     ---- =  ----

     250    50

I think. Im not sure!!

Answer 7

250 divided by .5?

If you're doing long division, you know you can't divide by decimals. You shift the decimal place over to the right--but you must also slide the larger number's decimal one place for every place of the other one.

So your problem is now 2500 divided by 5. Then you know how to do that...

Answer 8

it means how many times does 250 go into 0.5 0.5 goes twice into 1 so times 250 by 2

Answer 9

0.5/250

move the . to the end like 05.

then do it regularly from there...the answer is .002

Answer 10

0.002

Answer 11

well put the .5 inside the thingy. so 250 is on the outisde. you need to move .5's decimal over, and you need to do the same thing to 250. so

5/2500. well put a decimal point after the five on the inside. 2500 doesnt go into 5.0, so put a 0 above the zero inside. then you multiply the top zero by 2500 and get 0, so put -0 under the inside zero. 50-0=50. add another zero, drop it down so then youred dividing 500 by 2500.

repeat.

its really hard to explain without a picture.

Answer 12

sorry i forgot to do math over the summer too.

Answer 13

Move the decimal place of 0.5 until large enough to fit one 250.

remember the number of decimal place moved. 3 to the right.

What is maximumum number of 250 going to 500.

The answer is 2.

Now move the decimal place back on the answer. 3 to the left

0.002

Answer 14

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Answer 15

Look for local community remedial mathematics classes...........    

Answer 16

0.5=1/2 so how many times can 1/2 go into 250? oh h**l idk bit i would gess hmmm oh idk srry!

Answer 17

0.5=1/2

(1/2) / (250/1)=1/2 * 1/251

=1/500

=2*10^-3 or 0.002

Answer 18

.002

Answer 19

0.5 : 250 = 0.002

     5

     50

     500

          0

Unfortunately I couldn't show the perfect places of numbers because this answer-window doesn't want to keep them

Answer 20

wow

Answer 21

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first wright it like this 250/.5  

next add a 0 after the .5 so its .50

250 doesnt fit in 50 does it? no so add a nother 0 to make it .500

,,,,,,____

250/.500   now that will go in there twice

so it would be

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               250/.500   = .002

ignore the commas it was just to get the division symbole to look right

Answer 22

move decimal over so it's 5/2500

1/500 or .005