chapter 3 lesson 3

I had a hard time with this lesson when we had to divide decimals.  It wasn’t necessarily hard, it just took a long time and got me frustrated.  I think that most of them were pretty easy as I just said, I just had a major problem with #26.

Example: Page 110 #26

26. Transportation Lonnie used 26.75 gallons of gas to drive his truck

508.25 miles. How many miles per gallon did he get?

           19

26.75) 508.25

19 is the answer, but the first time I did it with long division I was getting into the thousandths before my mom stopped me and helped me se what was wrong, all I did was mess up a little part of a problem inside of the main problem and it took me that much longer.

One time I might use this in real life is if I had to run a 5.25 miles  each day for a competition and I added them all up and had 120.75, but them I forgot how many days I ran. Them I would have to divide 120.75 by 5.25 which I then would see is 23.