1.6 Division 1.6 OBJECTIVES 1. Use the language of division 2. Write a division problem as repeated subtraction 3. Divide whole numbers We will now examine a fourth arithmetic operation, division. Just as multiplication was repeated addition, division is repeated subtraction. Division asks how many times one number is contained in another. Example 1 Dividing by Using Subtraction Joel needs to set up 48 chairs in the student union for a concert. If there is room for 8 chairs per row, how many rows will it take to set up all 48 chairs? This problem can be solved by subtraction. Each row subtracts another 8 chairs. 48 8 40 8 32 8 24 8 16 8 8 8 40 32 24 16 8 0 Because 8 can be subtracted from 48 six times, there will be 6 rows. This can also be seen as a division problem © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 48 8 6 or 6 8B48 or 48 6 8 No matter which method we use, we call the 48 the dividend, the 8 the divisor, and the 6 the quotient. CHECK YOURSELF 1 Carlotta is creating a garden path made of bricks. She has 72 bricks. Each row will have 6 bricks in it. How many rows can she make? 71 CHAPTER 1 OPERATIONS ON WHOLE NUMBERS Units Analysis When dividing a denominate number by an abstract number, the result will get the units of the denominate number. Here are a couple of examples 76 trombones 4 19 trombones $55 11 $5 When one denominate number is divided by another, the result will get the units of the dividend over the units of the divisor. 144 miles 6 gallons 24 miles/gallon (which we read as “miles per gallon”) $120 8 hours 15 dollars/hour (“dollars per hour”) To solve a problem that requires division, you must first set up the problem as a division statement. The next example will illustrate this. Example 2 Writing a Division Statement Write a division statement that corresponds to the following situation. You need not do the division. The staff at the Wok Inn Restaurant splits all tips at the end of each shift. Yesterday’s evening shift collected a total of $224. How much should each of the seven employees get in tips? $224 7 employees (note that the units for the answer will be “dollars per employee”) CHECK YOURSELF 2 Write a division statement that corresponds to the following situation. You need not do the division. All nine sections of basic math skills at SCC (Sum Community College) are full. There are a total of 315 students in the classes. How many students are in each class? What are the units for the answer? In the previous section, we used a rectangular array of stars to represent multiplication. These same arrays can represent division. Just as 3 4 12 and 4 3 12, so is it true that 12 3 4 and 12 4 3. © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 72 DIVISION 4 3 12 73 3 4 12 SECTION 1.6 or 12 3 4 or 12 4 3 This relationship allows us to check our division results by doing multiplication. Example 3 Checking Division by Using Multiplication NOTE For a division problem to check, the product of the divisor and the quotient must equal the dividend. 3 (a) 7B21 Check: 7 3 21 (b) 48 6 8 Check: 6 8 48 CHECK YOURSELF 3 Complete the division statements, and check your results. (b) 28 7 (a) 9B45 NOTE Because 36 9 4, we say that 36 is exactly divisible by 9. In our examples so far, the product of the divisor and the quotient has been equal to the dividend. This means that the dividend is exactly divisible by the divisor. That is not always the case. Let’s look at another example using repeated subtraction. Example 4 Dividing by Using Subtraction, Leaving a Remainder How many times is 5 contained in 23? NOTE Notice that the remainder must be smaller than the divisor or we could subtract again. 23 5 18 18 5 13 13 5 8 8 5 3 We see that 5 is contained 4 times in 23, but 3 is “left over.” © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 23 is not exactly divisible by 5. The “left over” 3 is called the remainder in the division. To check the division operation when a remainder is involved, we have the following rule: Definitions: Remainder Dividend divisor quotient remainder CHECK YOURSELF 4 How many times is 7 contained in 38? 74 CHAPTER 1 OPERATIONS ON WHOLE NUMBERS Example 5 Checking Division by a Single-Digit Number Using the work of the previous example, we can write NOTE Another way to write the result is 4 5B23 4 r3 The “r” stands for 5B23 remainder. To apply our previous rule, we have with remainder 3 Divisor Dividend 23 5 4 3 Remainder 23 20 3 23 23 The division checks. CHECK YOURSELF 5 Evaluate 7B 38. Check your answer. We must be careful when 0 is involved in a division problem. There are two special cases. Rules and Properties: Division and Zero 1. 0 divided by any whole number (except 0) is 0. 2. Division by 0 is undefined. The first case involving zero occurs when we are dividing into zero. Example 6 Dividing into Zero 0 5 0 because 0 5 0. CHECK YOURSELF 6 (a) 0 7 (b) 0 12 Our second case illustrates what happens when 0 is the divisor. Here we have a special problem. Example 7 Dividing by Zero 8 0 ? This means that 8 0 ? Can 0 times some number ever be 8? From our multiplication facts, the answer is no! There is no answer to this problem, so we say that 8 0 is undefined. © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies NOTE Notice that the multiplication is done before the 3 is added. Quotient DIVISION SECTION 1.6 75 CHECK YOURSELF 7 Decide whether each problem results in 0 or is undefined. (a) 9 0 (b) 0 9 (c) 0 15 (d) 15 0 It is easy to divide when small whole numbers are involved, because much of the work can be done mentally. In working with larger numbers, we turn to a process called long division. This is a shorthand method for performing the steps of repeated subtraction. To start, let’s look at an example in which we subtract multiples of the divisor. Example 8 NOTE With larger numbers, repeated subtraction is just too time-consuming to be practical. Dividing by a Single-Digit Number Divide 176 by 8. Because 20 eights are 160, we know that there are at least 20 eights in 176. Step 1 Write 20 eights 20 8B176 160 16 Subtracting 160 is just a shortcut for subtracting eight 20 times. After subtracting the 20 eights, or 160, we are left with 16. There are 2 eights in 16, and so we continue. Step 2 2 eights 2 20 22 8B176 160 16 16 0 Adding 20 and 2 gives us the quotient, 22. Subtracting the 2 eights, we have a 0 remainder. So 176 8 22 CHECK YOURSELF 8 Verify the results of Example 8, using multiplication. © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies The next step is to simplify this repeated-subtraction process one step further. The result will be the long-division method. Example 9 Dividing by a Single-Digit Number Divide 358 by 6. The dividend is 358. We look at the first digit, 3. We cannot divide 6 into 3, and so we look at the first two digits, 35. There are 5 sixes in 35, and so we write 5 above the tens digit of the dividend. 5 6B358 When we place 5 as the tens digit, we really mean 5 tens, or 50. 76 CHAPTER 1 OPERATIONS ON WHOLE NUMBERS Now multiply 5 6, place the product below 35, and subtract. 5 6B358 300 5 We have actually subtracted 50 sixes (300) from 358. Because the remainder, 5, is smaller than the divisor, 6, we bring down 8, the ones digit of the dividend. 5 6B358 300 58 Now divide 6 into 58. There are 9 sixes in 58, and so 9 is the ones digit of the quotient. Multiply 9 6 and subtract to complete the process. NOTE Because the 4 is smaller than the divisor, we have a remainder of 4. NOTE Verify that this is true 59 6B358 30 58 54 4 We now have: 358 6 59 r4 To check: 358 6 59 4 and that the division checks. CHECK YOURSELF 9 Divide 7B 453. Long division becomes a bit more complicated when we have a two-digit divisor. It is now a matter of trial and error. We round the divisor and dividend to form a trial divisor and a trial dividend. We then estimate the proper quotient and must determine whether our estimate was correct. Example 10 Dividing by a Two-Digit Number Divide 7 NOTE Think: 4B29 Round the divisor and dividend to the nearest ten. So 38 is rounded to 40, and 293 is rounded to 290. The trial divisor is then 40, and the trial dividend is 290. Now look at the nonzero digits in the trial divisor and dividend. They are 4 and 29. We know that there are 7 fours in 29, and so 7 is our first estimate of the quotient. Now let’s see if 7 works. 7 38B293 266 27 Your estimate Multiply 7 38. The product, 266, is less than 293, and so we can subtract. The remainder, 27, is less than the divisor, 38, and so the process is complete. 293 38 7 r27 Check: 293 38 7 27 You should verify that this statement is true. © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 38B293 DIVISION SECTION 1.6 77 CHECK YOURSELF 10 Divide. 57B482 Because this process is based on estimation, we can’t expect our first guess to always be right. Example 11 Dividing by a Two-Digit Number Divide 8 NOTE Think: 5B 43 54B428 Rounding to the nearest ten, we have a trial divisor of 50 and a trial dividend of 430. Looking at the nonzero digits, how many fives are in 43? There are 8. This is our first estimate. 8 54B428 432 Too large We multiply 8 54. Do you see what’s wrong? The product, 432, is too large. We can’t subtract. Our estimate of the quotient must be adjusted downward. We adjust the quotient downward to 7. We can now complete the division. 7 54B428 378 50 We have 428 54 7 r50 Check: 428 54 7 50 CHECK YOURSELF 11 Divide. © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 63B557 We have to be careful when a 0 appears as a digit in the quotient. Let’s look at an example in which this happens with a two-digit divisor. Example 12 NOTE Our divisor, 32, will divide into 98, the first two digits of the dividend. Dividing with Large Dividends Divide 32B9871 CHAPTER 1 OPERATIONS ON WHOLE NUMBERS Rounding to the nearest ten, we have a trial divisor of 30 and a trial dividend of 100. Think, “How many threes are in 10?” There are 3, and this is our first estimate of the quotient. 3 32B9871 96 2 Everything seems fine so far! Bring down 7, the next digit of the dividend. 30 32B9871 96 27 Now do you see the difficulty? We cannot divide 32 into 27, and so we place 0 in the tens place of the quotient to indicate this fact. We continue by multiplying by 0. After subtraction, we bring down 1, the last digit of the dividend. 30 32B9871 96 27 00 271 Another problem develops here. We round 32 to 30 for our trial divisor, and we round 271 to 270, which is the trial dividend at this point. Our estimate of the last digit of the quotient must be 9. 309 32B9871 96 27 00 271 288 Too large We can’t subtract. The trial quotient must be adjusted downward to 8. We can now complete the division. 308 32B9871 96 27 00 271 256 15 9871 32 308 r15 Check: 9871 32 308 15 CHECK YOURSELF 12 Divide. 43B8857 © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 78 DIVISION SECTION 1.6 79 Because of the availability of the handheld calculator, it is rarely necessary that people find the exact answer when performing long division. On the other hand, it is frequently important that one be able to either estimate the result of long division, or confirm that a given answer (particularly from a calculator) is reasonable. As a result, the emphasis in this section will be to improve your estimation skills in division. Let’s divide a four-digit number by a two-digit number. Generally, we will round the divisor to the nearest ten and the dividend to the nearest hundred. Example 13 Estimating the Result of a Division Application The Ramirez family took a trip of 2394 miles (mi) in their new car, using 77 gallons (gal) of gas. Estimate their gas mileage (mi/gal). Our estimate will be based on dividing 2400 by 80. 30 80B2400 They got approximately 30 mi/gal. CHECK YOURSELF 13 Troy flew a light plane on a trip of 2844 mi that took 21 hours (h). What was his approximate speed in miles per hour (mi/h)? As before, we may have to combine operations to solve an application of the mathematics you have learned. Example 14 Estimating the Result of a Division Application Charles purchases a new car for $8574. Interest charges will be $978. He agrees to make payments for 4 years. Approximately what should his payments be? First, we find the amount that Charles owes: $8574 $978 $9552 © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies Now, to find the monthly payment, we divide that amount by 48 (months). To estimate the payment, we’ll divide $9600 by 50 months. 192 50B9600 The payments will be approximately $192 per month. CHECK YOURSELF 14 One $10 bag of fertilizer will cover 310 square feet. Approximately what would it cost to cover 2200 square feet? CHAPTER 1 OPERATIONS ON WHOLE NUMBERS CHECK YOURSELF ANSWERS 1. 12 2. 315 students 9 classes; students per class 3. (a) 5; 9 5 45; (b) 4; 7 4 28 4. 5 5. 5 with remainder 3 6. (a) 0; (b) 0 7. (a) undefined; (b) 0; (c) 0; (d) undefined 8. 8 22 176 9. 64 with remainder 5 10. 8 with remainder 26 11. 8 with remainder 53 12. 205 with remainder 42 13. 140 mi/h 14. $70 © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 80 Name 1.6 Exercises Section Date 1. If 48 8 6, 8 is the _______, 48 is the _______, and 6 is the _______. 9 2. In the statement 5B45 , 9 is the _______, 5 is the _______, and 45 is the _______. 3. Find 36 9 by repeated subtraction. ANSWERS 1. 4. Find 40 8 by repeated subtraction. 2. 5. Stefanie is planting rows of tomato plants. She wants to plant 63 plants with 9 plants per row. How many rows will she have? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 6. Nick is designing a parking lot for a small office building. He must make room for 12. 42 cars with 7 cars per row. How many rows should he plan for? 13. Divide the following. Identify the correct units for the quotient. 7. 36 pages 4 14. 8. $96 8 9. 4900 km 7 10. 360 gal 18 11. 160 miles 4 hours 12. 264 ft 3 sec 13. 3720 hours 5 months 14. 560 calories 7 grams 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies Divide using long division, and check your work. 15. 54 9 16. 21 3 17. 6B42 18. 7B63 19. 4B32 20. 56 8 21. 5B43 22. 40 9 23. 9B65 24. 6B 51 25. 57 8 26. 74 8 27. 0 5 28. 5 0 29. 4 0 30. 0 12 31. 0 6 32. 18 0 29. 30. 31. 32. 81 ANSWERS 33. Divide. 34. 33. 5B83 34. 9B78 35. 3B162 36. 4B232 37. 8B293 38. 7B346 39. 8B3136 40. 5B4938 41. 8B5438 42. 9B3527 43. 8B22,153 44. 5B43,287 45. 4B4351 46. 8B3251 47. 4B7321 48. 7B8923 49. 3B13,421 50. 4B34,093 51. 48B892 52. 54B372 53. 23B534 54. 67B939 55. 45B2367 56. 53B3480 57. 34B8748 58. 27B9335 59. 42B7902 60. 53B8729 61. 28B8547 62. 38B7892 63. 763B3071 64. 871B4321 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Solve the following applications. 50. 65. Counting. Ramon bought 56 bags of candy. There were 8 bags in each box. How 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 82 many boxes were there? 66. Capacity. There are 32 students who are taking a field trip. If each car can hold 4 students, how many cars will be needed for the field trip? 67. Packaging. There are 63 candy bars in 7 boxes. How many candy bars are in each box? © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 51. 68. Business. A total of 54 printers were shipped to 9 stores. How many printers were shipped to each store? 69. Recreation. Joaquin is putting pictures in an album. He can fit 8 pictures on each page. If he has 77 pictures, how many will be left over after he has filled the last 8-picture page? 70. Counting. Kathy is separating a deck of 52 cards into 6 equal piles. How many cards will be left over? 71. Recreation. Ticket receipts for a play were $552. If the tickets were $4 each, how many tickets were purchased? 72. Construction. Construction of a fence section requires 8 boards. If you have 256 boards available, how many sections can you build? 73. Business. The homeowners along a street must share the $2030 cost of new street © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies lighting. If there are 14 homes, what amount will each owner pay? 74. Cost. A bookstore ordered 325 copies of a textbook at a cost of $7800. What was the cost to the store for an individual textbook? ANSWERS 75. 75. Telephone calls. The records of an office show that 1702 calls were made in 1 day. If there are 37 phones in the office, how many calls were placed per phone? 76. 77. 76. Television costs. A television dealer purchased 23 sets, each the same model, for $5267. What was the cost of each set? 78. 77. Computers. A computer printer can print 340 lines per minute (min). How long will 79. it take to complete a report of 10,880 lines? 78. Distance. A train traveled 1364 mi in 22 h. What was the speed of the train? Hint: Speed is the distance traveled divided by the time. 80. 81. 82. 79. Bonuses. A company distributes $16,488 in year-end bonuses. If each of the 36 83. employees receives the same amount, what bonus will each receive? 84. 80. Complete the following number cross. Down 1. (12 + 16) 2 2. 67 3 4. 744 12 5. 2600 13 7. 6300 12 10. 304 2 11. 5 (161 7) 13. 9027 17 15. 400 20 17. 9 5 1 2 3 7 6 14 18 8 13 12 15 5 10 9 11 4 17 16 19 Estimate the result in the following division problems. (Remember to round divisors to the nearest ten and dividends to the nearest hundred.) 84 81. 810 divided by 38 82. 458 divided by 18 83. 4967 divided by 96 84. 3971 divided by 39 © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies Across 1. 48 4 3. 1296 8 6. 2025 5 8. 4 5 9. 11 11 12. 15 3 111 14. 144 (2 6) 16. 1404 6 18. 2500 5 19. 3 5 ANSWERS 85. 8971 divided by 91 86. 3981 divided by 78 85. 86. 87. 3879 divided by 126 88. 8986 divided by 178 89. 3812 divided by 188 90. 5245 divided by 255 87. 88. 89. Solve the following applications. 91. Gas mileage. Jose drove 279 miles (mi) on 18 gallons of gas. Estimate his mileage. (Hint: Find the number of miles per gallon.) 92. Construction. A contractor can build a house in 27 days. Estimate how many houses 90. 91. 92. can be built in 265 days. 93. 93. Inheritances. Twelve people are to share equally in an estate totaling $26,875. Estimate how much money each person will receive. 94. 95. 94. Business. There is $365 left in the budget to purchase pens. If each box of pens costs $18, estimate the number of boxes of pens that can be ordered. 95. Monthly payments. Tara purchased a used car for $1850 by paying $275 down and the rest in equal monthly payments over a period of 18 months. Estimate the amount of her monthly payments. 96. 97. 98. 96. Consumer purchases. Art has $275 to spend on shirts. If the cost of a shirt is $23, estimate the number of shirts that Art can buy. 97. You are going to recarpet your living room. You have budgeted $1500 for the carpet © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies and installation. (a) Determine how much carpet you will need to do the job. Draw a sketch to support your measurements. (b) What is the highest price per square yard you can pay and still stay within budget? (c) Go to a local store and determine the total cost of doing the job for three different grades of carpet. Be sure to include padding, labor costs, and any other expenses. (d) What considerations (other than cost) would affect your decision about what type of carpet to install? (e) Write a brief paragraph indicating your final decision, and give supporting reasons. 98. Division is the inverse operation of multiplication. Many daily activities have inverses. For each of the following activities, state the inverse activity: (a) (b) (c) (d) Spending money Going to sleep Turning down the volume on your CD player Getting dressed 85 ANSWERS 99. If you have no money in your pocket and want to divide it equally among your four 99. friends, how much does each person get? Use this situation to explain division of zero by a nonzero number. 100. 100. Explain the difference between division by zero and division of zero by a natural number. 101. 101. Division is not associative. For example, 8 4 2 will produce different results 102. if 8 is divided by 4 and then divided by 2 or if 8 is divided by the result of 4 2. In the following, place parentheses in the proper place so that the expression is true. 103. (a) 16 8 2 4 (b) 16 8 2 1 (c) 125 25 5 1 (d) 125 25 5 25 (e) Is there any situation in which the order of how the operation of division is performed produces the same result? Give an example. 102. Division is not commutative. For example, 15 5 5 15. What must be true of the numbers a and b if a b b a? 103. Your class goes to a local amusement park. A ride can carry 15 passengers in each cycle. (a) If a new cycle starts every 5 min, how many cycles does the ride make every hour? (b) How many passengers can ride every hour? (c) How long would it take all the students in your class to complete the ride? 1. Divisor, dividend, quotient 3. 4 5. 7 7. 9 pages 9. 700 km 11. 40 miles/hour 13. 744 hours/month 15. 6 17. 7 19. 8 21. 8 r3 23. 7 r2 25. 7 r1 27. 0 29. Undefined 31. 0 33. 16 r3 35. 54 37. 36 r5 39. 392 41. 679 r6 43. 2769 r1 45. 1087 r3 47. 1830 r1 49. 4473 r2 51. 18 r28 53. 23 r5 55. 52 r27 57. 257 r10 59. 188 r6 61. 305 r7 63. 4 r19 65. 7 boxes 67. 9 bars 69. 5 pictures 71. 138 tickets 73. $145 75. 46 calls 77. 32 min 79. $458 81. 20 83. 50 85. 100 87. 30 89. 20 91. 15 mi/gal 93. $2700 95. $80 97. 99. 101. 103. 86 © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies Answers Using a Scientific Calculator to Divide Of course, division is easily done by using your calculator. However, as we will see, some special things come up when we use a calculator to divide. First let’s outline the steps of division as it is done on a calculator. Divide 35B2380. 1. Enter the dividend. 2380 2. Press the divide key. 3. Enter the divisor. 35 4. Press the equals key. The desired quotient is now in your display. The display shows 68 We mentioned some of the difficulties related to division with 0 earlier. Let’s experiment on the calculator. Example 1 Using a Scientific Calculator to Divide To find 0 5, we use this sequence: 0 5 Display 0 There is no problem with this. Zero divided by any whole number other than 0 is just 0. CHECK YOURSELF 1 What is the result when you use your calculator to perform the following operation? © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 0 17 We’ve seen what happens when dividing zero by another number, but what happens when we try to divide by zero? More importantly to this section, how does the calculator handle division by zero? Example 2 illustrates this concept. 87 88 CHAPTER 1 OPERATIONS ON WHOLE NUMBERS Example 2 Using a Scientific Calculator to Divide To find 5 0, we use this sequence: 5 0 Display NOTE You may find that you must “clear” your calculator after trying this. Error If we try this sequence, the calculator gives us an error! Do you see why? Division by 0 is not allowed. Try this on your calculator to see how this error is indicated. CHECK YOURSELF 2 What is the result when you use your calculator to perform the following operation? 17 0 Another special problem comes up when a remainder is involved in a division problem. Example 3 Using a Scientific Calculator to Divide In a previous section, we divided 293 by 38 and got 7 with remainder 27. 293 38 7.7105263 Quotient Remainder 7 is the whole-number part of the quotient as before. 0.7105263 is the decimal form of the remainder, 27, as a fraction of 38. CHECK YOURSELF 3 What is the result when you use your calculator to perform the following operation? 458 36 The calculator can also help you combine division with other operations. Example 4 Using a Scientific Calculator to Divide To find 18 2 3, use this sequence: 18 2 3 Display 12 Do you see that the calculator has done the division as the first step? © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies this later. For now, just be aware that the calculator will not give you a remainder in the form we have been using in this chapter. NOTE We will say more about DIVISION CHECK YOURSELF 4 Use your calculator to compute. 15 5 7 Example 5 Using a Scientific Calculator to Divide To find 6 3 2, use this sequence: 6 3 2 Display 4 CHECK YOURSELF 5 Use your calculator to compute. 18 6 5 CHECK YOURSELF ANSWERS © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 1. 0 2. Error message 3. 12.72222 4. 10 5. 15 SECTION 1.6 89 Name Section Calculator Exercises Date Use your calculator to perform the indicated operations. ANSWERS 1. 5940 45 2. 2808 36 3. 36,182 79 4. 36,232 56 5. 583,467 129 6. 464,184 189 7. 6 9 3 8. 18 6 3 9. 24 6 4 10. 32 8 4 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11. 4368 56 726 33 12. 1176 42 1572 524 13. 3 8 8 8 12 14. 5 6 6 18 15. (18 87) 15 16. (89 14) 25 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Answers 16. 1. 132 15. 7 5. 4523 7. 9 9. 16 11. 100 13. 128 © 2001 McGraw-Hill Companies 3. 458 90
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