Question

What is 35 divided by -7?

Answer 1

Hint: First, you need to see if 35 is divisible by 7. As you can see, 35 appears in the table of 7. Therefore, 35 divided by 7 is -5. But in the question you are asked to find what is 35 divided by -7. When divided by negative numbers, the division is the same as with the positive numbers but only an additional negative symbol is added to the answer. Hence you can find the final answer.

Complete step by step solution:
Here is the step wise solution.
The first part is just divide the number 35 with 7 without any negative sign. We know that the number 35 appears in the 7 table. Therefore, 35 divided by 7 gives 5, as 7 multiplied by 5 is 35.
$\Rightarrow {\displaystyle \frac{35}{7}}=5$
The next step is to just add the negative sign to the final answer. We are adding the negative signa as 7 has a negative sign. If both 35 and 7 have the negative sign, the negative signs would have been cancelled and the final answer does not have any negative sign. Therefore, we get
$\Rightarrow {\displaystyle \frac{35}{-7}}=-5$
Therefore, we get the final answer of the question, what is 35 divided by -7 is -5.

Note: Whenever you get these types of questions, you should first do the division and then put any signs if needed. If you have an odd number of negative signs in the question, you get a negative sign in the answer. If you have an even number of negative signs, then you get only a positive sign in the answer.