Solve the Division Problem: 88:4 Step by Step

Solve the following division exercise:

$88:4=$

Apply the distributive property of division and proceed to split the number 88 into the sum of 80 and 8. Simplifying he division operation allows us to solve the exercise without a calculator

Reminder - The distributive property of division actually allows us to split the larger term in the division problem into a sum or difference of smaller numbers, which makes the division operation easier and allows us to solve the exercise without a calculator

$(80+8):4=$

Apply the formula of the distributive property $(a+b):c=a:c+b:c$

$(80:4)+(8:4)=$

Continue to solve the problem according to the order of operations

$20+2=22$

Therefore the answer is option C - 22.

Shown below are the various steps of our solution:

$88:4=(80+8):4=80:4+80:4=20+2=22$