Find the quotient of -96 and 12?

Question

3645 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2018-04-05T15:10:29

#8#

# -96 divide 12 = 8 #

Answer 2 · 2018-04-05T15:17:43

#- 8#

See the explanation for a 'tip'

Quotient means 'the answer after dividing'.

If you get really stuck this is one (bit long) way of dealing with it.

Firstly lets for the moment forget about the negative and just deal with #96-:12#

Write as #96/12#

Notice that both numbers are even so we can divide by 2

#(96-:2)/(12-:2) =48/6#

Again they are both even

#(48-:2)/(6-:2) = 24/3#

The two digits of 24 are such that #2+4=6# and 6 is exactly divisible by 3 so 24 is also exactly divisible by 3. So now we can do this:

#(24-:3)/(3-:3) = 8/1 = 8#

Now we put the negative back in giving #-8#