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Sarah wrote the expression 12 ÷ 3 = 4 to represent the number of flowers in each row of Mrs. White’s garden. What is the number 12 in the expression?

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It's called the "dividend". A dividend is a number to be divided by another number. The 3 is the divisor, a number by which another number is to be divided.
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