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🔑 Key Concepts
- Unit price tells the cost for one item or one unit.
- To find unit price, divide the total cost by the number of units.
- When dividing decimals, make the divisor a whole number if needed.
- Move the decimal in the dividend the same number of places as the divisor.
- Use the quotient to interpret the cost per pound, per item, or per unit.
✏️ Worked Examples — Dividing Decimals and Unit Price
🧠 Math Vocabulary
- Unit Price: the cost for one unit of an item.
- Dividend: the number being divided.
- Divisor: the number you divide by.
- Quotient: the answer to a division problem.
- Decimal: a number written using a decimal point to show parts of a whole.
💡 Main Idea
This lesson shows how dividing decimals can help solve real-world problems involving unit price. By dividing the total cost by the number of pounds, items, or units, students can find the cost for one unit and make useful shopping comparisons.
📚 What You Should Already Know
Before this lesson, students should be comfortable with long division, place value, and basic decimal operations. It also helps to understand how to read money amounts and interpret measurements such as pounds.
🚀 What Comes Next
After learning to find unit price by dividing decimals, students can apply this same skill to shopping comparisons, rates, proportional reasoning, and multi-step real-world problems involving rational numbers.
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