document.write( "Question 1000192: I would like to know the answer to this word problem please. \"Rachel has 100 apples. She split the apples up evenly between 5 people. Now Rachel has 0 apples. How many apples does each of the 5 people have?\" Please note that the apples can be cut up into into pieces ex. 1/5th or .2 pieces of an apple. Also I wrote this word problem to try and solve my question 100 minus what 5 times equals 0. Any and all help would be helpful. \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #617692 by josgarithmetic(39618)\"\" \"About 
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\"100%2F5=20\", WHOLE APPLES.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The word problem you made up and tried to solve used the concept of repeated subtraction. Not bad, but this is the same as division. \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You were thinking, what is Q, in \"100-5%2AQ=0\". Are you learning basic algebra?
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\n" ); document.write( "\"5%2820-Q%29=0\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"20-Q=0\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"20-Q%2BQ=0%2BQ\"
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