Pearson Algebra 1 Common Core, 2015
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Exercise 1 Page 29

What operation does divided by represent?

n/4

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The key phrase is divided by. This indicates that we should divide one thing by another.

...÷... The two terms that we are dividing are n and 4. Because the phrase is n divided by, 4 is the divisor and n is the dividend. Written as a fraction, n will be the numerator and 4 will be the denominator. n÷ 4 ⇔ n/4