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What level of Mathematics class are you taking?
What is the topic of discussion - that generated this problem (HW)?
Steven G
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Excuse me but no one here is going to solve anything for you. This is a help forum where we help students solve their problems. What helpers here never do is solve a problem for a student-that is your job!
Here is a hint: Divide 51000 by 4 (using long division or any other division method you know) and see what the remainder is?
Do you know what a remainder is??
If you go into a store with $51,000 and keep buying an item that cost exactly $4 each (no tax), how much money will be left in the end? That will be your remainder.
Here is a hint: Divide 51000 by 4 (using long division or any other division method you know) and see what the remainder is?
Do you know what a remainder is??
If you go into a store with $51,000 and keep buying an item that cost exactly $4 each (no tax), how much money will be left in the end? That will be your remainder.
topsquark
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I'm not trying to be insulting but if you are studying modular arithmetic you are at least in a High School level algebra course. If that's the case then you should already know how to find a remainder! You should have been taught that years ago.
All numbers p may be expressed in the form p = qn + r. n is called the "divisor" and r is called the "remainder." So, for example, if we have the number p = 61 and we divide it by n = 7 we have 61 = 8 * 7 + 5. The remainder is r = 5. To find this on a calculator you simply divide 61 by 7. The whole number part is q = 8. Then find r = 61 - 7 * 8 = 5.
Now, what is the remainder when you divide 51000 by 4?
-Dan