Given:
divide 78.432 by 2.4
1. fraction:
[tex]\frac{78.432}{2.4}[/tex]2. whole number divisor
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{78.432}{2.4} \\ \text{Multiply and divide by 10} \\ \frac{78.432\times10}{2.4\times10}=\frac{784.32}{24} \end{gathered}[/tex]3. Division algorithm