What is 5 divided by 1?

The answer to the question: What is 5 divided by 1 is as follows:

5 / 1 = 5

Instead of saying 5 divided by 1 equals 5, you could just use the division symbol, which is a slash, as we did above.

Also note that all answers in our division calculations are rounded to three decimals if necessary.

Here are some other ways to display or communicate that 5 divided by 1 equals 5:

5 ÷ 1 = 5
5 over 1 = 5
⁵⁄₁ = 5

The easiest way we found to answer the question "what 5 divided by 1 means", is to answer the question with a question: How many times does 1 go into 5?

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