Who is asking: Student
Level: Middle

Question:

what is a quotient?
what is a divisor?
what is a divident?

Hi Brian

Consider the division question: 8/4 = 2. The number that you are dividing into is the dividend and is 8. The number that you are dividing by is the divisor and is 4. The number of full times that the divisor will "go into" the dividend, i.e. the number of 4's that there are in 8 is the quotient  and is 2. Even if you have a division like 9/4 where the answer is 2 and 1/4 the quotient is still 2 (even though there is a remainder of 1).

Cheers
Jack