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parag1973
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:57 am    Post subject: defintion Reply with quote

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what is division?
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Division is the inverse operation to multiplication. Given numbers a and b with a \not= 0, then there is precisely one number x which satisfies the equation

ax = b

So then we define

x = \frac{b}{a}
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