Asked by izyah

Ella completed the division problem below.

1.848 divided by 0.6. 6 StartLongDivisionSymbol 184.8 EndLongDivisionSymbol minus 18 = 48. 48 minus 48 = a remainder of 0 and a quotient of 30.8.
What is Ella’s error?
She included a 0 in the quotient, which does not belong.
She multiplied the dividend by 100 instead of 10.
She should have multiplied both numbers by 100.
She did not subtract correctly in one of the steps.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
She multiplied the dividend by 100 instead of 10.

Explanation: To divide by 0.6 you multiply both numbers by 10: 1.848 ÷ 0.6 = 18.48 ÷ 6 = 3.08. Ella used 184.8 ÷ 6 (moved the decimal two places in the dividend), giving 30.8, which is ten times too large.