Question

Question #4807b

Answer 1

`0/0` is undefined..

Explanation:

`0/0` is undefined..

One could explain this by saying there are 3 rules in place here.

"Zero divided by anything (except 0) is equal to 0"

`0/5 =0," "0/25 = 0, " "0/(-14) = 0` etc

"Anything divided by itself is equal to 1.

`5/5 = 1, " "37/37 = 1, " " (-12)/(-12) = 1` etc

"Division by 0 is not permissible/undefined"
Dividing by 0 actually gives infinity as the answer, but infinity is not a number.

So, we have 3 possible answers using valid maths concepts.

So which is it? `" "0?," " 1?" " "infinity"?`

No-one knows, so it best to just say that `0/0` is undefined.