Needing help understanding what my daughter is doing.

[Markkeb]

I'm trying to help my daughter with her math work over the phone. The question is as follows.

Show your work and write and expression using the following criteria:
1. A dividend is greater than 1000.
2. The quotient is 37 with a remainder of 4.

Any help to get me to understand what she is looking for would help, unfortunately this is all the information I have to offer. Thank you.

 

[lev888]

I'm trying to help my daughter with her math work over the phone. The question is as follows.

Show your work and write and expression using the following criteria:
1. A dividend is greater than 1000.
2. The quotient is 37 with a remainder of 4.

Any help to get me to understand what she is looking for would help, unfortunately this is all the information I have to offer. Thank you.

A dividend is a number we want to divide by another number. It's supposed to be greater than 1000.
Quotient - the integer result of division. Remainder - well, what remains.
9/4 = 2, with remainder 1.
You want to find a number greater than 1000, which, when divided by another number, results in 37, with a remainder of 4.
I would multiply 37 by an increasing number until we get a product greater than 1000. This number is the one you are dividing by. Now add 4 to the product, so that when the sum is divided by the number you found we'll get a remainder of 4.

 

[Markkeb]

A dividend is a number we want to divide by another number. It's supposed to be greater than 1000.
Quotient - the integer result of division. Remainder - well, what remains.
9/4 = 2, with remainder 1.
You want to find a number greater than 1000, which, when divided by another number, results in 37, with a remainder of 4.
I would multiply 37 by an increasing number until we get a product greater than 1000. This number is the one you are dividing by. Now add 4 to the product, so that when the sum is divided by the number you found we'll get a remainder of 4.

Thank you lev, I did just that and figured out that 27 × 37 is 999, add 4 to that and the answer is 1003.

So the proper expression, in your opinion, would be:
37×27=999
999+4=1003
Or
37×27+4=1003
I just feel as if her teacher is asking for this to be written in a certain form and I have no clue, other than the two forms I just did it, as to what would be the proper way of doing this.

 

[lev888]

Thank you lev, I did just that and figured out that 27 × 37 is 999, add 4 to that and the answer is 1003.

So the proper expression, in your opinion, would be:
37×27=999
999+4=1003
Or
37×27+4=1003
I just feel as if her teacher is asking for this to be written in a certain form and I have no clue, other than the two forms I just did it, as to what would be the proper way of doing this.

Looks good to me. Except, maybe the teacher expects to see the division operation, since we are talking about dividends and quotients. I am not sure what the format should be. A/B=C R 4?