Question

A teacher asked her students to divide a large number by 50.

• Aslan divided the number by 50.
• Lucy divided the number by 5 and then divided the answer she got by 10.
• Jack divided the number by 10 and then divided the answer he got by 40.
Who among these got the correct answer assuming they did NOT make mistakes in division?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Another way to do it is to multiply by 100 and divide by 2. That's probably the simplest way to do it.

Aslan of course would get the right answer. It's direct and it does give the right answer.

Lucy also did it correctly.

Jack is the only one who will not get it right.