Question

Given that 9554 divided by 562 equals 17 how can you find the quotient 95540 divided by 562

Answer 1

It would be 170 because you just add a zero at the end since the number only changed by adding one zero. 

Answer 2

Answer: Hello!

ok, here we know that 9554 divided by 562 is equal to 17; this is

9554/562 = 17

Now we have the number 95540 divided by 562, and we want to solve this using the prior information:

Is easy to see that 95540 = 10*9554, then:

95540/562 = (10*9554)/562

now we can use the commutative property of the multiplication and get:

(10*9554)/562  = 10*(9554/562) = 10*17 = 170