Examples
- 8/2 means 'eight divided by two' and in this case 8 is the dividend, the number that we will divide by 2 to get the answer (4).
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The above problem could be alternately written 8 ÷ 2 or
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The above problem could be alternately written 8 ÷ 2 or
- 11/20 means 'eleven divided by twenty' and in this case 11 is the dividend.
- Therefore it should be noted that the dividend does not have to be greater than the divisor.
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