General Equations Part 1
IS 0/0 REALLY EQUAL TO ONE? There is a set of equations that works with every number. These are general equations. Here are a few examples. If you have an x amount of cake (x is only a variable), and you eat them all, you eat all x amount of cake(s). x/1 always equals x. Let me explain further on the subject. Multiplication is essentially the process of repeated addition. Let's use the cake example. Every hour, one cake is made. How many hours does it take to make two cakes. We can represent this situation as a multiplication sentence: 1*2. 1*2=2, since you add 1 twice. 1+1 is 2. So in two hours, two cakes are made. Division is essentially the inverse of multiplication.Therefore, 2÷1=2. This proves the point that x÷1=x. But does that mean that 0÷1=0? It does indeed. This gets me to my next point: 0÷x=0. If you have 0 cakes and you'll eat the cakes, How many cakes will you have? You'll have no cakes because there are no cakes in the first place. How are you going to eat not...