Obiee 11g Administrator: Dividing an INT with an INT column results in INT

OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1
I have developed a formula column in BMM. The column is based on dividing an INT column with another INT column.
The formula column picks automatically the type as INT and when I developed a report on this column it shows integer values instead of decimal.
Dividing Profit by Cost (both integers) should give an index which is a decimal value. How to come up with that?

Multiply with 1.0 to see decimal values
ex: (a*1.0)/b
or else try data format in report
if helps mark

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