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)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \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 \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You were thinking, what is Q, in \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |