Find the product of 543.1187 and 100 A. 5.431187 B. 54,311.87 C. 5,431.187 D. 54.31187 Can someone also explain how they came up
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When you're multiplying by a power of 10 such as 100, the decimal point moves two places to the right. Note that this corresponds with the number of zeroes in 100. Of course our number is going to get bigger, not smaller, which means we'd have to be going right. If we multiplied by something like 0.001, we'd also be going two places, just going smaller and to the left.
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recall that the division is done with the dividend and divisor sorted in descending order, notice the dividend has a jump from x³ to x, so the x² is missing, but is really there, but it has a coefficient of 0, as you see there in red, so we add any missing terms on either side.
