Question

What is the remainder when 15,908 is divided by 13?

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

Idk im guessing 1223.69

Answer 3

The entire point of a remainder is to eliminate decimals
You have to do actual long division to get it
Or you could do 1223 times 13 and find the difference between that and15908

Answer 4

Btw you are correct in that decimal approximation value of 1223.69

Answer 5

use a calc

Answer 6

i got 1223.692308

Answer 7

Yeah but you can't use that
You need a remainder not decimals

Answer 8

yea

Answer 9

would it be 1223?

Answer 10

So what I recommend doing is 1223 x 13
What would that be?
No the answer is not 1223

Answer 11

15899

Answer 12

So now you can do 15908-15899 to get the remainder

Answer 13

9

Answer 14

OHHHHHHHHHHHH

Answer 15

This works because 1223 is the number of times 13 goes into 15908 evenly

Answer 16

Yep that's the answer

Answer 17

Wow, thanks for having patience with me :D LOL tyyyysmm

Answer 18

Wow, thanks for having patience with me :D LOL tyyyysmm

Answer 19

no problem