Maybe you’re interpreting it wrong. With addition and subtraction we can imagine objects increasing and decreasing in quantity.
However we cannot multiply or divide an object to make more or less of that object. Instead it’s more like creating territories on an object for microbials to fight over.
That doesn’t make any sense to me but the calculator says it’s correct… Goddamit I’m going to be thinking about this all day now…
a quarter is half of a half.
It’s confusing because it’s
dividing by "one over two (a half)"instead ofdividing by "two over one".Dividing by 2is the same acutting something in half.Dividing by a halfis the same as the inverse ofcutting something in half, which isdoubling it0.25 / 0.50 = (0.25 * 4) / (0.50 * 4) = 1 / 2 = 0.50
Maybe you’re interpreting it wrong. With addition and subtraction we can imagine objects increasing and decreasing in quantity.
However we cannot multiply or divide an object to make more or less of that object. Instead it’s more like creating territories on an object for microbials to fight over.
If this doesn’t make sense to you, you’re in desperate need to repeat elementary school
Divide with a decimal to multiply. This is equivalent to multiplying 0.25 by 2.