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Explain how you would use repeated subtraction to find 8/2

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First, you subtract 8-2, then subtract 6-2, then subtract 4-2, then subtract 2-2, then you have 0 so you count the amount of times you subtracted. In our case it would be 4 times so 8÷2=4. ;)
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