Question

How do you translate “ the quotient of a number N and $ 4 $ ” into a mathematical expression?

Answer 1

Hint: Read the question carefully. Then divide the expression into small words. Starting from considering the number to be n or any other alphabet. Then use the algebraic operations and hence we can find our required expression.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Let us firstly consider a number be
Then rereading the question line whom we want to translate which is “the quotient of a number N and $ 4 $ ” . Then in this line we had one strange word which is “quotient” . Quotient comes from the latin word which means how many times or we can write the above line as:
“ how many times does $ 4 $ go into n”.
Quotient means as one is talking about the division of one number to another.
So, the question is talking about the expression as $ \dfrac{n}{4} $ which can also be written as $ n \div 4 $ .
The required answer of the above question is $ \dfrac{n}{4} $ or $ n \div 4 $
So, the correct answer is “ $ \dfrac{n}{4} $ or $ n \div 4 $ ”.

Note: The common notation for a variable is either x or n but all the alphabets are accepted for the variables. An expression is a sentence containing minimum two variables and a mathematical operation. The mathematical operations as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. Whereas, The mathematical expression contains equality symbol (=) between the variables and the constants.