Question

How is the quotient 80,000 divided by 2,000 different from the quotient 80,000 divided by 200 or 80,000 divided by 20?

Answer 1

Notice that the divisors 2,000, 200 and 20 are similar except for the number of zeros.
You can remove a zero from each dividend equal to the number of zeros in the divisor.   
So 80,000 ÷ 2,000 is equivalent to 80 ÷ 2 = 40  ( I removed 3 zeros from each)
80,000 ÷ 200 is equivalent to 800 ÷ 2 = 400   (notice that I could only remove 2 zeros)
Finally 80,000 ÷ 20 only allows us to remove on zero ---    8,000 ÷ 2 = 4,000.
The smaller the divisor the greater the quotient (when dividing the same number - in this case  80,000)