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How do you do long division?

Asked by skeh0138 (111points) April 7th, 2008

on paper showing one’s work, is there an order of operations or something?

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annaott22's avatar

yes it’s PEMDAS

Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication and Division
Addition and Subtraction

hope this helps http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.order.operations.html

65Stang's avatar

he asked about long division.

annaott22's avatar

well long division has parentheses and you do what in the parentheses first of course so I was giving the full explanation of the whole order It’s pretty useful if you remember it.

annaott22's avatar

Oops! I was wrong when he said order of operations it threw me off. long division is very simple it basically subtraction.

skeh0138's avatar

whatever do you mean…

Les's avatar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_division
I think this is all teachers mean when they say “show work” for long division. Check out the ‘example’. Just carry through with all the steps.

65Stang's avatar

I didn’t think of that!

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