Dividing is the opposite of multiplying. When you divide a decimal number by 10, 100 and 1000, the place value of the digits in the number decrease. Place value is the position of a digit in a number.
Speaker: Not all numbers are whole numbers. Decimals are numbers that are between two whole numbers. So 1.4 is between 1 and 2. A decimal that starts with a 0 before the decimal point is less than 1.