When you learned to add decimals, you saw that lining up the decimal point in the addends is really important. Why do you think it is not necessary to line up the decimal points in the two factors when multiplying decimals? Answer in 2 complete sentences.

Why is it not necessary to line up the decimal point to multiply?

- In addition and subtraction, it is important to line up the place value columns because we can only add or subtract digits in the same place value columns.

Step-by-step explanation:

-362

step-by-step explanation:

(12)(4)+2(12)-34(12)+2(12)-3

  \/         \/         \/         \/

  48 +   24 -   408 + 24 - 3

      \   /               \   /

          72     -     432 - 3 = -363