Question

Children are happy today. They are celebrating Children’s Day. Each child will be given 4 coloured pencils from school. The school has got 969 pencils. To find out how many children can get pencils the teacher asks them to divide.

• Complete Iru s and Sreeni's way of division. What is the answer you get?

Answer 1

Iru’s way: 

`4")"overline969(100 + 100 + 40 + 2`
 – 400
   569
– 400
   169
– 160
      9
   – 8
      1

Sreeni’s way:

`4")"overline969(200 + 40 + 2`
 – 800
   169
– 160
      9
   – 8
      1