Question

Brody spent $260 on 4 chairs. To find out how much he spent on each chair, he did the following work in long division. 65 4) 260 -24 20 -20 0 Did he do the problem correctly? Why or why not? O A. No, because there is a remainder of o. B. No, because the first digit in the quotient should be 4, not 6. O C. No, because the problem should be 260 14. O D. Yes, he worked the problem correctly.

Answer 1

He spend $260 on 4 chairs:

To know how much he spent on each chair he must:

Divide 260 into 4

You first pick the firt digit of the dividend (260) and look if you can divide that digit into the divider (4) as in this case the firt digit 2 cannot be divided into 4 you take the first and secon digit (26) and divide it into 4 (how many times fix 4 in 26), this is equal to 6 times (this is the first digit of the quotient), then you multiply the 6 by 4 (6*4=24)and put the result under the 26 to substract it:

Now you lower the zero (of the 260) next to the result of the previous subtraction:

And divide 20 into 4 (how many times fix 4 in 20) this is equal to 5 times (this is the second digit of the quotient ) then you multiply the 5 by 4 (5/4 =20) and put the result under the 20 to substract it:

The remainder of 0 means the division has not decimal result, the result of 260 into 4 is an interger number (65)

The firt digit of the quotient is 6 because 26 into 4 is 6.

So the division he did is the correct form to find how much cost each chair ($65)