Division

Division is the process of determining how many times one quantity is contained within another quantity, or of splitting a quantity into equal parts.

The quotient is the result of the operation.

The dividend is the number that is divided. The divisor is the number that divides.

|24.54\div 2.53=9.69...|

The remainder is a number that cannot be divided by the divisor.

Consider the following division. ||37\div4=||

1. We determine how many times |4| goes into |37|
   
   The number |4| goes into |37| a maximum of |9| times.

2. We write the result with the remainder
   
   Since |4\times9=36,| |1| remains. ||37-36=1||
   The quotient of the whole division is: |9| remainder |1.|

The divisors of a number are the natural numbers by which that number can be divided and which result in an answer without a remainder.

The divisors of |24| are |\left\{1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24\right\}.|

The number |24| can be divided by each of these numbers and the result is a natural number without a remainder.

The word factor is used incorrectly to denote the divisors of a number.

Factors are the building blocks of multiplication. They can be compared to dividends and divisors in division.

|56 \div\ ?=8|

|56 \div 8 =\ ?|

|?=7|