Question

Please help me with this answer and what that symbol means (The symbol that looks like an equal sign with a forward slash)

Answer 1

You have that:

$1.016\div4.064\ne0.025$

By definition, the following symbol means "Not equal to":

$\ne$

Then, you can identify that the Decimal number 1.016 divided by the Decimal number 4.064, is "Not equal to" 0.025 .

Now, in order to determine that Division indicated in the exercise is not equal to 0.025, you can set up the following:

$\begin{gathered} 1.016\approx1 \\ 4.064\approx4 \end{gathered}$

Remember that this symbol means "Approximately equal to".

Then, knowing that approximation of each Decimal number, you can set up:

$1\div4$

By definition, a Division can be written as a fraction. Then:

$\frac{1}{4}$

You know that:

$\frac{1}{4}=0.25$

Then:

$1\div4\ne0.025$

That means that:

$1.016\div4.064\ne0.025$

The answer is:

• You know that the result of the Division is not equal to 0.025 by rounding the Decimal numbers 1.016 and 4.064 to the nearest Whole number. Since:

$\frac{1}{4}=0.25$

You can conclude that:

$1.016\div4.064\ne0.025$

• This symbol means "Not equal to":

$\ne$