SOLUTION: can you please tell me what 0/0 means and why. because my elementary algebra teacher wants me to tell him what that means and explain it, but i have no clue of how to do that.

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Question 27458: can you please tell me what 0/0 means and why. because my elementary algebra teacher wants me to tell him what that means and explain it, but i have no clue of how to do that.
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
anything divided by zero is infinity because the concept of "how many times does zero go into a number" is nonsense.

Jon.