5.1 Dividing Whole Numbers (6th)

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What is division?

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Division is the process of determining how many times one number is contained within another. It is one of the four basic operations in arithmetic.

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What is the dividend in a division problem?

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The dividend is the number that is being divided in a division problem.

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What is the divisor in a division problem?

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The divisor is the number by which the dividend is divided.

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What is the quotient in a division problem?

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The quotient is the result of the division operation.

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How do you check your division answer?

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You can check your division answer by multiplying the quotient by the divisor. If the product equals the dividend, your answer is correct.

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What does it mean to divide a number by zero?

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Dividing a number by zero is undefined in mathematics because there is no number that can be multiplied by zero to yield a non-zero dividend.

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What is a remainder in division?

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A remainder is the amount left over after division when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor.

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If 630 is divided by 18, what is the quotient?

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35

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If 5,820 is divided by 30, what is the quotient?

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194

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If 316 is divided by 79, what is the quotient?

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