Divide by Zero — Rules & Examples
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- Can you divide by 000? Think of the meaning of division. If you had a pizza and each person received 000 slices, how many people could you feed? The question doesn't even make s…
By Ivan Hu, Michael Livshits, Alex Federspiel, Liza Sulkin, Joshua Siktar
- (Video) Problems with 0 by Numberphile Here's a fantastic video by Numberphile explaining what goes on behind the scenes when you divide by 000, have 000^000, and have 00\frac{0…
By Alex Federspiel, Jonathan Heller, Joshua Siktar
- (Video) Division Properties by mathman1024 Here's a video by mathman1024 that goes over some properties of division. Summary\large{\text{Summary}}Summary A Number Divided by Its…
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- Dividing by 0 Notice this is different from dividing zero by a number. That looks like 0÷a or 0a0 \div a \ \text{ or } \ \frac{0}{a}0÷a or a0 and will equal 000 as long as a≠0a…
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Problems 22
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- What is ?
- What is 0÷180\div180÷18?
- What is 8÷0+18\div0+18÷0+1?
- Select the numbers that you can divide 121212 by to get a valid answer.
- True or False\text{True or False}True or False === If 5÷05\div05÷0 is undefined\text{undefined}undefined, then 0×undefined0\times\text{undefined}0×undefined is 555.
- Is there any number that will allow you to divide by zero?
- What is ?
- True or False\text{True or False}True or False === 06\frac{0}{6}60 and 60\frac{6}{0}06 are both undefined.
- What is −9÷0-9\div0−9÷0?
- What is 130×13\frac{13}{0\times13}0×1313?
- Say someone offers you a hundred dollars to divide by zero. Do you do it?
- Suppose you had a pizza that was cut into 121212 pieces. If you wanted to to distribute pieces to all 000 of your friends, how many would each friend get?
- Can you divide the number of whales in the world by the number of unicorns?
- What number multiplied by 000 gives us the number 232323?
- True or False\text{True or False}True or False === You can divide 16∘16^{\circ}16∘ by any temperature outside.
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- What value below makes the expression undefined? x+88−x\frac{x+8}{8-x}8−xx+8
- Evaluate: 6−62−2\frac{6-6}{2-2}2−26−6
- Evaluate: 0×−255×0\frac{0\times -25}{5\times 0}5×00×−25
- Evaluate: 8−1+82−7⋅9\frac{8}{-1+8^2-7\cdot 9}−1+82−7⋅98
- What number, when multiplied by 666, gives 000?