What is 56 Divided by 2?
Answer – 56 divided by 2 is 28.
Explanation:
The sum 562 can be solved using the long division method as follows.
Here, 56 is the divisor and 2 is the dividend.
The following steps are followed:
- Each digit of 56 is separately divided by 2, going from left to right. This means that first, only 5 is divided by 2. , is the closest result to 5 that is smaller than it. Therefore, 2 is placed above the top bar directly above 5.
- 4 (the product of 22) is subtracted from 5 to give a remainder of 1.
- The remaining digit from 56, which is 6 is brought down. The remainder thus becomes 16.
- This 16 is then divided by 2. Since , 8 is placed above the top bar, to the right of the 2 already written there (over the 6).
- The product 16 (from 28) is subtracted from the remainder 16. The final remainder is now 0.
The two digits placed above the top bar, 2 and 8, are collectively considered the quotient, which is the answer to the division sum.
Thus, 56 divided by 2 is 28.