{"id":232697,"date":"2025-06-12T05:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=232697"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:39:29","slug":"textbullet-use-egyptian-method-to-divide-47-by-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/12\/textbullet-use-egyptian-method-to-divide-47-by-9\/","title":{"rendered":"\\Textbullet Use Egyptian method to divide 47 by 9."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\\Textbullet Use Egyptian method to divide 47 by 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution using Egyptian Division:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We want to compute:47\u00f7947 \\div 947\u00f79<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1: Create a table of 9’s multiples<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We double 9 repeatedly and list the results alongside powers of 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power of 2<\/th>Value<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
1<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>18<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>36<\/td><\/tr>
8<\/td>72 \u2190 too large, so ignore this one<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Step 2: Find combinations of values that add to 47<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We now look for values in the table that sum up to 47:36+9+2=47(But 2 is not in our table)36 + 9 + 2 = 47 \\quad (\\text{But 2 is not in our table})36+9+2=47(But 2 is not in our table)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we can think again:36+9=45(still short by 2)36 + 9 = 45 \\quad (\\text{still short by 2})36+9=45(still short by 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So:479=45+29=459+29=5+29\\frac{47}{9} = \\frac{45 + 2}{9} = \\frac{45}{9} + \\frac{2}{9} = 5 + \\frac{2}{9}947\u200b=945+2\u200b=945\u200b+92\u200b=5+92\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final Answer:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

529\\boxed{5\\frac{2}{9}}592\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Explanation (Textbook Style):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Egyptian method of division is based on repeated doubling and expressing a number as the sum of convenient multiples. Instead of modern long division, the ancient Egyptians used a clever technique involving doubling and subtraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To divide 47 by 9, we start by creating a table of multiples of 9 by repeatedly doubling: 9, 18, 36, and so on. This mirrors the powers of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, \u2026), since Egyptians were familiar with doubling due to their method of multiplication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, we look for combinations of these doubled values that add up to or just below 47. We find that 36 and 9, which are 4 and 1 times 9 respectively, sum to 45. This is close to 47, leaving a remainder of 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we divide the leftover 2 by 9 to get the fractional part of the answer: 2\u20449.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, putting it all together:
47 \u00f7 9 = 5 (from 45 \u00f7 9) plus 2\u20449 leftover.
This gives the final answer as 5 and 2\u20449.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This method demonstrates the ingenuity of Egyptian arithmetic, which relied on addition, subtraction, and doubling instead of multiplication tables or long division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\\Textbullet Use Egyptian method to divide 47 by 9. The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Solution using Egyptian Division: We want to compute:47\u00f7947 \\div 947\u00f79 Step 1: Create a table of 9’s multiples We double 9 repeatedly and list the results alongside powers of 2: Power of 2 Value 1 9 2 18 4 36 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}