Division words problems arise in situations where we are trying to find out how many times a number go into another.In general, Division is the inverse operation of multiplication.Consider this first example.
Problem #1:
Sylvia's income is 26,000 dollars per year (52 weeks). How much money does Sylvia make weekly?
Sylvia's income of 26,000 dollars was found by doing the following:
? × 52 = 26,000 where the question mark represents Sylvia's weekly income.
It may take you forever to try every possible number that you need to multiply by 52 to get 26,000
The number is of course 500, but to find it, do a quick division of 26,000 by 52.
You can also think of the problem above as a
Linear equation
In this case, you can replace the question mark by x and solve either of the following two equations: