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Lesson 4: Multi-digit division- Estimating multi-digit division
- Introduction to dividing by 2-digits
- Long division with remainders: 2292÷4
- Long division with remainders: 3771÷8
- Basic multi-digit division
- Dividing by 2-digits: 9815÷65
- Dividing by 2-digits: 7182÷42
- Dividing by a 2-digits: 4781÷32
- Division by 2-digits
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Dividing by 2-digits: 9815÷65
In this math lesson, we learn the process of dividing large numbers, specifically 9,815 divided by 65. The technique involves estimation, multiplication, and subtraction to find the quotient. By following these steps, we discover that the result is 151. Created by Sal Khan.
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- At, can't you just round 331 to 340 since you rounded 65 up to 70? 1:41(45 votes)
- You technically could to try to get the approximate answer, but you'd want to round down to 330 since it's closer. However, this strategy will not get you the correct answer, just an approximation/estimate, that will help you find and check your answer.(41 votes)
- you said 2-2 is 1 it is 0(13 votes)
- go easy on him, he made like almost all the math ka videos without going mad.(15 votes)
- Is there any easier way to work division? or is this the only way?(12 votes)
- Actually, there are several ways to do division, I usually use multiplication to help me.(6 votes)
- make the videos more faster(0 votes)
- You can hit the settings gear button and change the playback speed to whatever you want to help you understand the video.(15 votes)
- what would happend if your mom had two bananas then drop 7 how many do she have?(2 votes)
- This is not a practical example that you provided, but the mathematical answer would be -5 bananas.(9 votes)
- What I want to know is how you get the numbers at the top of the divisor? When you carry, where does the numbers that you carry come from?(2 votes)
- And I write it this way because it's easier to manipulate the numbers, kind of doing the standard process here. So first I could think about well, how many times does 65 go into 9? Well it doesn't go into 9 at all so I can move one digit to the right. How many times does it go into 98 without going over it? Well 65 times 1 is 65 so that doesn't go over it. And 65 times 2, well that would be 130 so that would go over 98. So it only goes one time. I multiply 1 times 65, which is 65. And then I could subtract to see how much I have left over. So 8 minus 5 is 3 and 9 minus 6 is 3. And now I can bring down the next digit, this 1 here. And now this is where the art is going to come into play because I need to figure out how many times does 65 go into 331 without going over it. And I might just try to look at these numbers, try to approximate them a little bit. I might say, well, maybe 65, let me round this thing up. Maybe this is close to 70. And let's see, this is close to 300. So maybe I say, well, 70 would go into 300. So maybe I think about how many times does 70 go into 300? And I say without going over it, it doesn't go exactly into 300. Well I could say, well how many times does 7 go into 30? Well I know 7 goes into 30 four times. 4 times 7 is 28. So maybe try a 4 right over here because then this will be 280, 4 times 70 is 280. I'm still going to have a little bit left over, but what I have left over is going to be less than 70. It's going to be 20. So I say, well, if this is roughly 70 and if this is roughly 300, then maybe it's going to be the same thing. So let's try that out. Let's see if it goes four times. So 4 times 5 is 20, carry the 2. 4 times 6 is 24 plus 2 is 26. And now let's see how much we had left over. So when we subtract, we are left with-- I'll do this in a new color-- 1 minus 0 is 1. We have a 3 here and a 6 here so we're going to have to do a little regrouping. Let's take 100 from the hundreds place. It becomes 200. Give those 10 tens, that 100, to the tens place. So now we have 13 tens. 13 minus 6 is 7 and then 2 minus 2 is 1. So did this work out? Well no, our remainder, after we said it went in four times, we actually had 71 left over. 71, this right over here, is larger than 65. You don't want a situation where what you have left over is larger than what you're trying to divide into the number. You could have gone into it one more time because you had so much left over. So this 4 was actually too low. We should have probably approximated this as 60, and 60 goes into 300, if we were to estimate, we'd say, well that might be closer to five times. So this is where the art of this comes into play. So it was very reasonable to do what I just did, but it just turned out to not be the right way to think about it. I could just say, well the 4 wasn't enough. I had too much left over. Let me try 5 now. 5 times 5 is 25, carry the 2. 5 times 6 is 30, plus 2 is 32. There you go. We got much closer to 331 without going over. Now we can subtract. And once again, we could do a little regrouping. Take a 10 from the tens place. This becomes two tens. This becomes an 11. 11 minus 5 is 6, 2 minus 2 is 0, 3 minus 3 is 0. So we only have 6 left over, which is obviously less than 65. So we're all good. And if we put a 6 here, we would have gone over 331. And so that wouldn't have been cool either. But anyway, let's bring down the next digit. Let's bring down the 5. So how many times does 65 go into 65? Well, it goes one time. 1 times 65,-- OK. Ignore this, that's from a previous step-- 1 times 65 is 65. And then you subtract, and we have no remainder. So we see that 65 goes into 9,815 exactly 150-- let me just that in that same blue color, I don't want to do all these arbitrary colors-- 151 times.(3 votes)
- how can you divid 9492 by 20(5 votes)
- I don't know how to do it(6 votes)
- Would you like my help?(0 votes)
- To make the division problem easier can we round it to the neartest 10 or 100? Like 9,815/65 can we do 10,000/70 or we can't.Because since it's so long it is hard for me a little bit.(3 votes)
- If you round it to the nearest 10th or 100th, you will not get the correct answer. Instead, see how many times 65 can go into 98, subtract, and repeat, as shown in the video. I hope this helps.(3 votes)
- Why do you have to round the number couldn't you just multiply and figure the answer out?(4 votes)
- Now, if it is multiplying, yes, it would probably figure the answer out, but still, really hard multiplication might need rounding. Also, this is division, not multiplication. Division on hard numbers is WAAAY easier with rounding. Rounding is a thing because it makes the math easier. For example,
1124 X 954 = (rounded) 1000 X 1000 = 1000000(0 votes)
Video transcript
Let's divide 9,815
by 65, or figure out how many times the
65 go into 9,815. And I encourage you
to pause this video and try this on your own. So let me just rewrite this
as 9,815 divided by 65. And we write it this
way because it's easier to manipulate the
numbers, kind of doing the standard process here. And as we'll see,
whenever we divide by a number that has
more than one digit, there's a little
bit of an art to it. And hopefully you'll
get an appreciation for that art over the
course of this video. So first we could
think about well, how many times
does 65 go into 9? Well it doesn't go
into 9 at all so we can move one digit to the right. How many times does it go
into 98 without going over it? Well 65 times 1 is 65 so
that doesn't go over it. And 65 times 2, well
that would be 130 so that would go over 98. So it only goes one time. We multiply 1 times
65, which is 65. And then we could subtract to
see how much we have left over. So 8 minus 5 is 3
and 9 minus 6 is 3. And now we can bring down
the next digit, this 1 here. And now this is where
the art is going to come into play because
we need to figure out how many times does 65 go into
331 without going over it. And you might just try
to look at these numbers, try to approximate
them a little bit. You might say, well, maybe 65,
let me round this thing up. Maybe this is close to 70. And let's see, this
is close to 300. So maybe we say, well,
70 would go into 300. So maybe we think about how
many times does 70 go into 300? And we say without
going over it, it doesn't go exactly into 300. Well you could say, well how
many times does 7 go into 30? Well we know 7 goes
into 30 four times. 4 times 7 is 28. So maybe try a 4 right
over here because then this will be 280, 4 times 70 is 280. You're still going to have
a little bit left over, but what you have left over
is going to be less than 70. It's going to be 20. So you say, well, if
this is roughly 70 and if this is roughly
300, then maybe it's going to be the same thing. So let's try that out. Let's see if it goes four times. So 4 times 5 is 20, carry the 2. 4 times 6 is 24 plus 2 is 26. And now let's see how
much we had left over. So when we subtract,
we are left with-- I'll do this in a new
color-- 1 minus 0 is 1. We have a 3 here and
a 6 here so we're going to have to do
a little regrouping. Let's take 100 from
the hundreds place. It becomes 200. Give those 10 tens, that
100, to the tens place. So now we have 13 tens. 13 minus 6 is 7 and
then 2 minus 2 is 1. So did this work out? Well no, our remainder, after
we said it went in four times, we actually had 71 left over. 71, this right over
here, is larger than 65. You don't want a situation
where what you have left over is larger than
what you're trying to divide into the number. You could have gone
into it one more time because you had
so much left over. So this 4 was actually too low. We should have probably
approximated this as 60, and 60 goes into 300,
if we were to estimate, we'd say, well that might
be closer to five times. So this is where the art
of this comes into play. So it was very reasonable to
do what I just did, but it just turned out to not be the
right way to think about it. I could just say, well
the 4 wasn't enough. I had too much left over. Let me try 5 now. 5 times 5 is 25, carry the 2. 5 times 6 is 30, plus 2 is 32. There you go. We got much closer to
331 without going over. Now we can subtract. And once again, we could
do a little regrouping. Take a 10 from the tens place. This becomes two tens. This becomes an 11. 11 minus 5 is 6, 2 minus
2 is 0, 3 minus 3 is 0. So we only have 6
left over, which is obviously less than 65. So we're all good. And if we put a 6 here, we
would have gone over 331. And so that wouldn't
have been cool either. But anyway, let's bring
down the next digit. Let's bring down the 5. So how many times
does 65 go into 65? Well, it goes one time. 1 times 65,-- OK. Ignore this, that's from
a previous step-- 1 times 65 is 65. And then you subtract,
and we have no remainder. So we see that 65 goes into
9,815 exactly 150-- let me just that in that
same blue color, I don't want to do all these
arbitrary colors-- 151 times.