:D I am having trouble understanding how to divide 63/1.40????? By hand!
T Tea&Coffee New member Joined Oct 31, 2011 Messages 6 Oct 31, 2011 #1 I am having trouble understanding how to divide 63/1.40????? By hand!
tkhunny Moderator Staff member Joined Apr 12, 2005 Messages 11,339 Oct 31, 2011 #2 Tea&Coffee said: I am having trouble understanding how to divide 63/1.40????? By hand! Click to expand... ABSOLUTELY FIRST - Estimate it. 63 / 1 = 63 63 / 2 = 31ish 1.4 is less than half way from 1 to 2, so a really rough estimate might be 49ish Whatever you do, if you get 365, something bad happened. If you get -3, something went horribly wrong.
Tea&Coffee said: I am having trouble understanding how to divide 63/1.40????? By hand! Click to expand... ABSOLUTELY FIRST - Estimate it. 63 / 1 = 63 63 / 2 = 31ish 1.4 is less than half way from 1 to 2, so a really rough estimate might be 49ish Whatever you do, if you get 365, something bad happened. If you get -3, something went horribly wrong.
T Tea&Coffee New member Joined Oct 31, 2011 Messages 6 Nov 1, 2011 #3 Thank you :shock: thank you very much - I was really drawing a blank and you helped me.