McGraw Hill Glencoe Algebra 1, 2012
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1. Variables and Expressions
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Exercise 23 Page 7

What operation does divided by represent?

f/10

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The key phrase is divided by. This indicates that we should perform a division.

/ The verbal expression f divided by 10 tells us that we should divide f by 10. We want f in the numerator and 10 in the denominator. f divided by 10 f/10 Note that this is only one of multiple ways to algebraically express the given verbal expression.