What is the Remainder of 5 divided by 2?

What is the Remainder of 5 divided by 2? In other words, what is the Remainder when you divide 5 by 2? Finding the Remainder of 5 divided by 2 is a three-step process. Here are the steps:

Step 1) Start by dividing 5 by 2 to get the decimal answer as illustrated below. Note that we round the answer if necessary, but don't worry, the final answer will still be exact.

5 / 2 = 2.50

Step 2) Next we take the Whole part of the answer in Step 1 and multiply it by the Divisor. As you can see, it does not matter if we rounded in the previous step because the Decimal part is ignored. Furthermore, the Divisor in 5 divided by 2 is 2. Thus, the Whole multiplied by the Divisor is:

2 x 2 = 4

Step 3) Finally, we will subtract the answer in Step 2 from the Dividend to get the answer. The Dividend in 5 divided by 2 is 5. Thus, our final calculation to get the answer is:

5 - 4 = 1

That is all there is to it! Again, the answer is 1.

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