How do you find the quotient of 15 divided by 5/6?

1 Answer
Sep 18, 2015

18

Explanation:

Quotient is the answer after you divide one number (dividend) by another (divisor).

In this question 15 is the dividend.

Whereas, 5/6 is the divisor.

Calculation:

=15-:5/6

Note that that the sign (-:) could be change to (xx) to make calculation easier, but in order to do that, 5/6 must be inverted to 6/5.

That will make the calculation looks like;

=15xx6/5

We can simplify 15 and 5 to give us the final answer;

=cancel(15)3xx6/(cancel(5)1)

=3xx6

=18