Dividing with decimals works exactly like regular long division... with just one difference.

Let's divide 2.35 by 5:

Set it up the usual way...

Now, just go on as usual and work around the decimal points.  Just pretend they aren't even there!

Sometimes, you'll see this as 0.47.
{"found_math": false, "script_math_tex": 0, "script_math_asciimath": 0, "math_annotations": 0, "math_alttext": 0, "mathml": 0, "mathjax_tag": 0, "mathjax_inline_tex": 0, "mathjax_display_tex": 0, "mathjax_asciimath": 0, "img_math": 0, "codecogs_latex": 0, "wp_latex": 0, "mimetex.cgi": 0, "/images/math/codecogs": 0, "mathtex.cgi": 0, "katex": 0, "math-container": 0, "wp-katex-eq": 0, "align": 0, "equation": 0, "x-ck12": 0, "texerror": 0, "url": "https://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/02-decimals/09-decimals-dividing-by-whole-number-01", "fetch_time": 1725744996000000000, "content_mime_type": "text/html", "warc_filename": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-38/segments/1725700650920.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240907193650-20240907223650-00017.warc.gz", "warc_record_offset": 698852114, "warc_record_length": 7934, "token_count": 70, "char_count": 282, "score": 3.515625, "int_score": 4, "crawl": "CC-MAIN-2024-38", "snapshot_type": "latest", "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9593347311019897, "file_path": "/sailhome/yjruan/project/latent-lm/data/processed/finemath-4plus/finemath-4plus/train-00059-of-00064.parquet"}