What is 1.2 * 0.6?

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Tarik ยท Stefan V.
Apr 9, 2016

0.72

Explanation:

The number 1.2 has only one digit which is 2. The same is for 0.6 - the only one digit is 6.

Let me multiply each of them by ten:

1.2 * 10=12

0.6 * 10=6

When we have converted them to the non-digital numbers we can multiply them easily:

12 * 6=72

Now, we should come to the start: we had 1.2 and 0.6 which we each multiplied by 10. Since both of them were multiplied by ten, now the result should be divided by 100 in order to obtain a correct number of digits.

72/100=0.72

So:

1.2 * 0.6 = 0.72

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