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Kalel says that 24 divided by 5 equals 36 divided by 8 because both are "4R4". Show his mistake using decimal division.

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Answer: 24/5=4.8 36/8=4.5

Step-by-step explanation: First, let's start off by dividing 24 by 5. We can turn this into 24.0 divided by 5 to make it a bit simpler. We know that 240 by 5 = 48, then since there is a decimal 1 digit to the left in 24.0, we apply that decimal 1 digit to the left in 48, making it 4.8! Now let's do 36 by 8. We can do what we did for problem 1 and turn 36 into 36.0, 360 by 8 = 45 and applying the same logic we used before, 360 turns into 36.0, and 45 turns into 4.5! Therefore, Kalel is wrong, and the two equation is not equal.

P.S. Using long division, Kalel is technically kind of right, but there's still that unaccounted for '4' that we still need to divide.

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