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Is the quotient 2.7 divided by 14 greater than one or less

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the answer to this problem is less than one
User Herr Kater
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"The quotient 2.7 divided by 14" means

"How many times can you take 14 out of 2.7 ?"
or
"How many times can you stuff 14 into a space designed to hold 2.7 ?"

Whichever way you look at it, I'm sure you can see that it's less than 1 .
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