Question

what is the quotient 72,658 divided by 1000?Round answer to three decimal places. If answer does not have 3 decimal places use zeros so that it does.

Answer 1

When dividing by a power of 10, we just need to move the decimal point by the number of zeros in the power of 10.

Since 1000 has three zeros, we will move the decimal point 3 positions to the left.

So we have:

`(72658)/(1000)=72.658`

Therefore the quotient is 72.658.