DECIMAL

Decimal is way of writing a number that is not a whole .

Eg. 3.5cm of rainfall at some places.

Here 3.5 lies between 3 and 4 . A dot(.) seperates the whole and the decimal places.
3.5

Whole number Decimal place value

Decimal point
Decimal place value chart

Note : 128.72

The digits after the decimal point are to be read seperatly as seven two and not as seventy two .
128 – Whole number
72 -- Decimal part

Expanding the decimal :

1) 4000 + 300+ 20+ 7 + 2/10 +3/100
Ans 4327.23
2) 126.023
Ans : 100+20+6+2/100+3/1000
Write the decimal place value:
1) 552.77 - 7tenths or 7/10
2) 770.48 – 8 hundreths or 8/100.
 Convert into decimals
Case 1 :
When the denominator is a multiple of 10 , write the numerator and place the decimal point after
as many digits from the right to left as the number of zeros in the denominator.
Eg: 4/100 = 0.04

Case 2 : When the denominator is not a multiple of 10 , then write an equivalent fraction for the
given fraction where the denominator ends with zero and then write the decimal.
Eg. 4/5 = 8/10 = 0.8
Conversion of decimals to fraction :
1) 5.3 = 5 + 0.3
= 5 + 3/10
5 3
=1 + 10
5×10 3
= 1×10 + 10

50 3
= 10 + 10

= 53 / 10
3
= 5 10.

LIKE AND UNLIKE DECIMALS

Like decimals – Decimals having same number of decimal places
Eg. 9.82, 5.72 , 3.55
Unlike decimals – Decimals having different number of decimal places .
Eg: 76.43 , 665.776 , 3.4
Addition of decimals
To add decimals we have to follow these steps :

Eg.
 Subtraction of Decimals
To subtract decimals we have to follow these steps :

Eg .

Multiplication of Decimals :
For multiplication of a decimal with whole number

Step 1 : Multiply the numbers without the decimal point ( as a whole numbers )

Step 2 : In the product , place the decimal point of the given decimal number places.

Eg:

To multiply a decimal with multiplication of 10 , just move the decimal point to the right by as many
digits of zeros in the multiplier
To multiply the decimal number with the decimal number ,
Step 1 : Ignore the decimal point and multiply them as a whole number but make sure to count the decimal places of
both the numbers

Step2 : count the decimal places of the numbers

Step 3 : Add the decimal numbers and in the product, place the decimal points .

Eg :
DIVISION OF DECIMALS
Division of a decimal by a whole number :
To divide a decimal number by a whole number , divide as we divide the whole place the decimal at the point where
we divide decimal in the dividend.

Eg :
Dividing decimals with multiples of 10

Eg :

Dividing decimals with decimals

To divide decimals with decimals we need to follow these steps :
Eg: