What is 0.12 divided by 3?

1. Place the decimal point in the answer directly above the decimal point in 0.12. 2. Divide as if the numbers were whole: 12 divided by 3 is 4. 3. Since 3 does not divide into 0 or 1 alone, a zero placeholder is needed before the 4. 4. This gives 0.04, so 0.12 divided by 3 is 0.04. _Source: OpenStax Prealgebra (CC BY 4.0), Ch 5 "Decimals", section 5.2 Decimal Operations_