Question

How many times can $2$ go into $34?$

Answer 1

Hint: As we know that above given statement is a mathematical expression. It is a kind of sentence with numbers, symbols all well formed that depends on the context and mathematical operations. We know that there are arithmetic operations and we often have to interpret a phrase, for example, the phrase $6$ added to $3$ means that $6 + 3$.

Complete step by step answer:
According to the statement we have to find the number of times can $2$ go into $34$.
We know that How many times can $2$ go into $34$ is the same as asking “ How much is $34$ divided by $2$.
So this is a division problem, it can be written as $\dfrac{{34}}{2}$, which gives the value $17$.
Hence the required answer is $17$.

Note: Before solving this kind of questions we should have the full practice of arithmetical numbers and their operations. We should note that there are several ways of solving this question. One method to do the division is to split the number i.e. $34$ into smaller parts and then solve it. For example we can write $34$ as $30 + 4$. Now we divide both the numbers with their common factors i.e. $\dfrac{{30}}{2} + \dfrac{4}{2} = 15 + 2$. It gives the value $17$which is the same as the previous solution.