Q&A for How to Do Long Division

It’s essentially the same process that you would use with a divisor of only 1 digit, except you will need to place a leading 0 at the top of the division sign. For example, if you’re dividing 360 by 25, you would start by putting a 0 over the 3, since 25 is larger than 3. The remainder is 3, so bring down the 6 to make 36. 25 goes into 36 once, so write a 1 at the top of the division sign over the 6. Subtract 25 from 36 to get the remainder 11. Bring down the 0 to get 110. 25 goes into 110 4 times, so write a 4 over the 0 at the top of the division sign. Subtract 100 from 110 to get the remainder 10, which you can divide by 25 to get the decimal .4. The answer is 14.4.

Yes! Check out the long division section of our article on How to Divide Polynomials.

Doing long division on a calculator is easy. Simply enter the dividend (the number you’re dividing), hit the ÷ key, and then enter the divisor (the number you’re dividing by). If there’s a remainder, it will be written as a decimal in the answer. If there are multiple decimal places, round up to the nearest 1 or 2 places after the decimal point.

The same way as in the article, but take away the decimal point. Just remember to put the point back in the same place.

Put 5250 in the division house and 30 outside. However, you can make it easier on yourself by chopping off the zeros. The answer must have the zeros on before you check your work. Answer: 175.

At the end of each whole number, there is a repeating 0. Writing down the .00 at the end sometimes helps.

Yes. Move everything over so there are no decimals, then put the decimal point back in. It helps to have a rough idea of the answer(estimate) for putting the decimal point in the proper place.

There is an implied decimal point just to the right of the whole-number dividend, and the decimal point in the quotient sits immediately above the implied decimal point in the dividend.

You practice! The more you practice your long division, the more comfortable you will be with quickly working through problems.

10 divided by 6 is 1 with a remainder of 4. That is where the 1 was from.

First eliminate the dollar sign, because the question as stated makes no sense. Then move the decimal point two places to the right in both divisor and dividend. Thus you divide 995 into 100,000,000.

You'll have two placeholders before doing any division. The rest is the same process as in the problem above, and the answer is 20.660.

Usually the divisor is given, but it is not always given.

The decimal point in the quotient sits immediately above the decimal point in the dividend.

Right off the bat, we know the answer will be a decimal since 324 can't go into 4 even once. Start by putting 324 outside of the division house and 4 inside. Write 4 as "4.0" and put a decimal above that decimal (on top of the decimal house) - this will serve as the beginning decimal point for your answer. From there, you can treat the two numbers as whole numbers and continue adding zeros onto the 4.0 if need be (i.e. 324 into 40000 written as 4.0000). Just make sure to maintain the decimal point in order to keep your answer correct.

Take the decimal out and then just put it back in the same place when you're done.

As an example, let's say we were dividing 10 by 2. In that case, we would subtract 2 from 10 as many times as necessary to reach zero. (10-2=8; 8-2=6; 6-2=4; 4-2=2; 2-2=0.) Then, count how many times you were able to subtract 2 from 10, which would be 5. Therefore, 10 divided by 2 is 5.

What do you mean divide 3 or 4 numbers? For percentage, let's say you had a math test and you scored a 37/40. To find the percentage you just divide the score as shown and then multiply by 100. So 37 / 40 = 0.925 x 100 = 92.5%.

No.

You can either use a caculater or long division. Either way, the answer is .0096153846153.

5 - 4 = 1, bring down the 0 and you have 10.

They same way as shown above with hundreds. The only difference is that thousands will take longer than hundreds, but both of them are done the same way.

Follow the steps in this article, starting with putting 319 as the dividend to the right and under the divide symbol, and 30 as the divisor to the left and outside of the divide symbol.

You can't do it and get a whole number, but you can do it and get a decimal.

That is the correct answer. Since you're dividing a smaller number by a larger number, the answer will be a decimal less than one (in this case, 0.024). Had you done 250 divided by 6, you would have gotten 41.6.

9 goes into 88 9 times, leaving 7 leftover. Bring down the third 8 to get 78. 9 goes into 78 8 times, with 6 leftover. The answer is 98 r6.

65 ÷ 85 is not 0.1 with a remainder of 20. It's 0.7 with a remainder of 55. That means 0.7 with a fractional remainder of 55/85.This fraction can be expressed as the decimal 0.647. So the actual quotient is 0.7647.

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The easiest way to do this is to eliminate three zeroes from both the divisor and the dividend, and you'll get the right answer. Once you eliminate those zeroes, the question becomes, "What is 100-thousand divided by 1?" The answer, of course, is 100-thousand.

The easiest way to do this is first to convert those numbers to base-10 and then do the division. (Then you can convert the answer back to base-2 if you want.) 100001 (base 2) is 33 (base 10), and 11 (base 2) is 3 (base 10). 33 ÷ 3 = 11 (base 10) or 1011 (base 2).