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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?
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Solution
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
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