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Sharing equally

Let us see how the children share these apples.

We first take 4 plates and Are there enough apples left in
put 1 apple on each plate. the basket?

Yes, so we put 1 more Now, no apple is
apple on each plate. left in the basket.

We have shared
8 apples equally.

Here, we see that all 8 apples have been shared among 4 children equally. each

child got 2 apples.

We say that: 8 divided by 4 is equal to 2. We write it as: 8 ÷ 4 = 2

The symbol ‘÷’ stands for division. 8 ÷ 4 = 2 is a division fact.

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