8 less than the number of apples divided into 5 groups = 1.6
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3 divided by 2 has a remainder of 1. Which is 1 less than 2.
Pretend that a stands for the number of apples you have. If you take one apple away from the number of apples you have, you will always end up with one less apple.
Any number less than 10 can be divided by 3: some evenly and others not.
Comparable means, colloquially, "about the same". Which roughly means the difference is less than, say, 10 to 20 %. So 15 apples is a number of apples comparable to 17 apples. It is not a rigorous mathematical term or idea.
A number smaller than 50 cannot be divided by 2356.