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Decimal Exercises for Students

This document provides instruction and practice on decimal operations including: - Arranging decimals in ascending order - Rounding decimals to 1 or 2 decimal places - Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals - Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 It includes examples of arranging, rounding, and performing the four basic operations on decimals as well as multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10.

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Decimal Exercises for Students

This document provides instruction and practice on decimal operations including: - Arranging decimals in ascending order - Rounding decimals to 1 or 2 decimal places - Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals - Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 It includes examples of arranging, rounding, and performing the four basic operations on decimals as well as multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10.

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Decimal (Part 1)

Revision 

Arrange these groups of numbers in ascending order (i.e. smallest to largest): 

1. 3.52, 3.05, 3.25, 3.55 
2. 30.6, 3.06, 3.6, 30.3 
3. 17.81, 1.718, 1.871, 11.87 
4. 26.92, 29.26, 29.62, 22.96, 22.69 
5. 11.11, 11.109, 11.111, 11.011 

Rounding decimals 

• Rounding involves approximating a decimal number to fewer decimal places. 
• Cut the number after the required decimal place. E.g. round to 2 decimal places. 
• To determine whether you should round up or down, consider only the digit immediately to the right of the 
specified place (the critical digit). 
• If the critical digit is 4 or less, you round down. 
• If the critical digit is 5 or more, you round up. 

Round the following to 1 decimal place: 

1. 15.913 
2. 231.68 
3. 9.3951 
4. 34.71289 
5. 29.999731 

Round the following to 2 decimal places: 

1. 3.7823 
2. 5.9156 
3. 0.93225 
4. 9.3951 
5. 29.999731 

Addition and subtraction 

• Align decimal points of each number under one another. 
• Add 0s to “shorter” number(s) to prevent calculation errors. 
• Calculate as if you are doing whole number addition or subtraction. 
• Place the decimal point in the answer directly in line with the other decimal points in the question. 

Exercise: 

1. 7.12 + 8.5 + 13.032 
2. 77.81 ‐ 6.3 
3. 210 + 22.3 + 1.05 
4. 412 ‐ 17.61 
5. 1 ‐ 0.001 
Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10 

• Powers of 10 include 10, 100, 1000, 10000 … and so on. 
• When multiplying by powers of 10, move the decimal point to the right the same number of places as there are 
zeros in the multiplier. 
• When dividing by powers of 10, move the decimal point to the left the same number of places as there are zeros 
in the divisor. 

Exercise: 

1. 4.87 × 10 
2. 14.304 × 100 
3. 35.283 × 10 
4. 5.69923 × 1000 
5. 12.7 × 1000 
6. 0.34 × 10 000 
7. 0.0051 × 10 000 000 
8. 213.2 × 10 
9. 42.7 ÷ 10 
10. 24.422 ÷ 10 
11. 56.89 ÷ 100 
12. 12135.18 ÷ 1000 
13. 2.9 ÷ 100 
14. 13.62 ÷ 10 000 
15. 0.54 ÷ 1000 
16. 0.02 ÷ 10 000 
17. 156 × 100 
18. 2134 × 1000 
19. 2251 ÷ 10 
20. 16 ÷ 1000 
21. 2122 ÷ 100 
22. 34 ÷ 10 000 
23. 7 ÷ 1000 
24. 99 × 100 000 
25. The weight of a matchstick is 0.00015 KG. Find the weight of 10 000 boxes of matches, with each box containing 
100 matches. The weight of one empty matchbox is 0.0075 KG. 

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