A muffin recipe calls for 3 times as much flour as sugar. Write a expression that can be used to find the amount of flour needed
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We need to find the quotient of the given division problem.
In order to find its quotient, we will use long division.
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First of all, we put x in the quotient as goes into
, x times.
So, we get:
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(x
Upon subtracting, we get:
We can see that goes into
, -2 times, therefore, the next term in the quotient will be -2. This makes our quotient as (x-2).