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Question 475763: may some one please helpe with this problem....The sum of eight snd the quotient of ten and five?

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Sum is the result of an addition. The quotient is the result of a division. "The quotient of ten and five" is a little ambiguous. Does it mean or ? These are two very different numbers. Without any other information, I would interpret it as the former.

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