Repeated Subtraction
As you heard in the video segment, division is a shortcut for repeated subtraction.
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If you want to see how many 6's there are in 24, you could do repeated subtraction until you get down to 0:
- 24 - 6 = 18
- 18 - 6 = 12
- 12 - 6 = 6
- 6 - 6 = 0
As you can see, you can subtract 6 from 24 four times to get to 0. This means that 24 ÷ 6 = 4. However, this process would take a very long time, especially if you were dividing something like 762 ÷ 5. It would be something like this:
- 762 - 5 = 757
- 757 - 5 = 752
- 752 - 5 = 747
- 747 - 5 = 742
- 742 - 5 = 737