Question

7.86×4.6=36.156?

Answer 1

Yes

Answer 2

How do you solve to get 36.156?

Answer 3

the first step is to ignore the decimal points completely (we'll reintroduce the decimal point back in later when we're done multiplying the numbers)

so we have 786 times 46

here is one way to multiply them out

this is known as the lattice multiplication

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the first step with lattice multiplication is to draw a rectangle

Answer 4

divide the rectangle into 3 parts. One for each digit of 786

Answer 5

then divide the height into 2 parts (one for each digit of 46)

Answer 6

next, we draw diagonal lines that extend out of the original rectangle like so



my drawing is a bit off but it should still work