--- title: Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be bought — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be bought», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: To divide a big number by a one-digit number, divide the hundreds, then the tens, then the ones: 576 ÷ 4: 5 hundred --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/143-how-many-can-be-bought/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/) / Dividing by a one-digit number: how ma… # Dividing by a one-digit number: how many can be bought Lesson 143 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/143-how-many-can-be-bought/1/) — To divide a big number by a one-digit number, divide the hundreds, then the tens, then the ones: 576 ÷ 4: 5 hundreds ÷ 4 = 1 hundred, 1 hundred left; 17 tens ÷ 4 = 4 tens, 1 ten left; 16 ones ÷ 4 = 4. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/143-how-many-can-be-bought/2/) — So 576 ÷ 4 = 144. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/143-how-many-can-be-bought/3/) — Check by multiplying back: 144 × 4 = 576. - ← previous: [Multiplying by a one-digit number](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/142-multiply-by-one-digit/) - next →: [The price of one thing from the money paid and the change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/144-price-from-change/) - ↑ back to [Lessons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/)