What is 250 divided by 3?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-27T12:54:57

$250/3 = 83.bar(3)$

You can tell whether an integer is divisible by $3$ based on whether the sum of its digits is divisible by $3$ .

So in the case of $250$ , we find:

$2+5+0 = 7$

which is not divisible by $3$ .

So we will not get an integer result when dividing $250$ by $3$ .

If we try long division, we find that the remainder repeats and the quotient repeats...

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We can indicate a repeating decimal using a bar over the repeating pattern of digits - in our example just " $3$ ", so:

$250/3 = 83.bar(3)$