Given that 9554 divided by 562 equals 17 how can you find the quotient 95540 divided by 562

Hello!

ok, here we know that 9554 divided by 562 is equal to 17; this is

9554/562 = 17

Now we have the number 95540 divided by 562, and we want to solve this using the prior information:

Is easy to see that 95540 = 10*9554, then:

95540/562 = (10*9554)/562

now we can use the commutative property of the multiplication and get:

(10*9554)/562  = 10*(9554/562) = 10*17 = 170