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The Reason Behind Devision

August 6 - 2020

It was in the afternoon and Mortaza was in the bathroom when he shouted "Maman Tabassom" (Tabassom is my wife's name) very loudly and repeatedly. Both my wife and I thought something terrible had happened and rushed to the bathroom. My wife got there first and opened the door. To our relief Mortaza was safe and sound sitting on the toilet seat. Then Mortaza asked her mother "Mom, do you know why 630 divided by 70 makes 9?"

I saw in my wife's face what I felt; a strong combination of shock, relief and frustration. Her level of indignation made her incomprehensible. She muttered something which sounded like "deal with him" and went out. I calm myself and asked him "what is it dear?". After he repeated his question, I told him "why don't you finish and come to my room to talk about it."

Later, he wrote the part marked in the following image. To understand what he meant, I wrote a proof of his explanation under it. 

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