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Long division, a la Shmoop. In recent years, many species have been placed

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on the endangered list. One of these species is the Underwear Fairy.

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The underwear they depend on to survive has been depleted by the expanding Underwear Troll

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population.

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What used to be a plentiful bounty is now just a cool draft.

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But wait -- the fairies have happened upon a pile of wild underwear.

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Looks like there are 333 pairs of underwear to split evenly among 9 fairies.

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Just how many pieces of underwear will each fairy get?

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To set up the problem, draw your division box.

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The dividend, or what's getting split up, goes inside the box. This is the 333 pairs

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of underwear.

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For the divisor, think outside the box. This is what you're dividing by.

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Next decide if the first digit of the dividend can be divided by the divisor, or if 9 can

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go into 3 at least once.

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No?

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Okay, so now see if 9 will go into the first two digits, or 33? Yes it can!

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That means our quotient, or answer, will start above the second digit, or the tens place.

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We need to find out "9 times what equals 33".

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If you remember your times tables, you'll remember that 9 times 3 = 27, which is close

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without going over.

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Subtract 27 from 33 and that leaves us with a remainder of 6.

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Bring down the last digit and we get 63.

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Does 9 go into 63? Why yes it does. How many times?

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7 times exactly in fact, which we write above the ones place.

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7 times 9 is 63. 63 minus 63 is zero, so we have no remainder.

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Yay, our answer is 37 pieces of underwear per fairy!

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Even better, there's no remainder so the fairies won't wand-beam each other to death over the

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leftover underwear.

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That's a terrible way

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to go.

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