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Division tells you how many times you can take the divisor away from the dividend to get zero.

For example, 18 ÷ 6 = 3 tells you you can take 6 away from 18 three times to get zero:

  1. 18 - 6 = 12
  2. 12 - 6 = 6
  3. 6 - 6 = 0

When you subtract zero, the dividend doesn't change, so no matter how many times you take zero away, you will never reach zero:

18 - 0 = 18

18 - 0 = 18

18 - 0 = 18

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18 - 0 = 18

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Thus you cannot divide by zero.

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