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All right people What time is it Yes it's math

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drill time All right here we go Let's just dive

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right in Given the following equation what is acts Now

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we get five hundred over ax equals point Oh five

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All right So what are they trying to do here

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O x always such the international man of mystery Do

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we need to pull out our caracas multiplication nunchucks and

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reveal the imager behind the mask Well it may look

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like we're supposed to divide five hundred by point Oh

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five here But hold on there's got to be a

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better way The problem is actually asking us to find

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a number That man of mystery acts yet right there

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that when divided into five hundred would move the decimal

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to the left to the left from five hundred point

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zero two zero point old five hundred Something got a

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point Oh five We'll just forget solving the problem Algebraic

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lee The easiest way to get from five hundred point

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oh five is well to just figure this out Yeah

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dividing five hundred by ten moves a decimal one place

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to left You get fifty divided by ten squared It

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moves it to places to left We had five And

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then if we uh need four places to the left

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well let's see What do we do there We've got

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to move it from its original spot after the five

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hundred point zero to get two point five so well

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we have to divide five hundred by ten to the

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fourth which in california is ten thousand years So that's

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it is ten to the fourth one one two three

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and then four places over to the left He at

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that point oh five things ten thousand The answer is 00:01:34.583 --> [endTime] see you later

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