

To be perfectly honest, the first two were pretty much the same thing it's just that the intermediate steps were in a different order. For us, this translates to putting the dot to the left of 2 2 2, which gives 0.250 = 0.25 0.250 = 0.25 0.250 = 0.25 (we write 0 0 0 if we have no number in front of the dot).Īll in all, we've seen how to multiply decimals in three ways. We then write the dot that many digits from the right in what we obtained.

Then we count how many digits to the right of the dots we had in total in the numbers we started with (in this case, it's three: one in 0.2 0.2 0.2 and two in 1.25 1.25 1.25). When multiplying decimals, say, 0.2 0.2 0.2 and 1.25 1.25 1.25, we can begin by forgetting the dots.
