what is the answer of 5/0=?

Answer 1

Analyze what that means in terms of fundamental algebra.

You are asking what is 5 mulitplied by the recipricol of 0.

Well, 0 doesn't have a recipricol. The definition of a recipricol of a number x is that number y such that x*y = y * x = 1.

If 0 had a recipricol of x, then 0 * x = 1. But, wait, one of the properties of 0 is that 0 * x = 0. So, 0 cannot have a recipricol.

So, 5/0 cannot have an answer as there is no such thing as /0.

Answer 2

5/0=i

Answer 3

The answer is NOT infinity, it is UNDEFINED. The reason is that it could be either infinity or negative inifinity, depending on which direction you're coming from. Consider 5/x: if you let x be a really small positive number, 5/x will be pretty big, and the closer x gets to 0, the bigger it will be, so it approaches infinity. But if you let x be a really small NEGATIVE number, 5/x will be a really big negative number because a positive number divided by a negative number is negative. If you let x approach 0 from the negative side, 5/x approaches negative infinity. Since depending on how you look at it, 5/0 could be infinity or negative infinity, it's considered undefined. On the other hand, if the problem has more details which make it obvious that x can only be positive or only be negative, then the answer could be infinity or negative infinity, depending on the problem. But just by itself, 5/0 is undefined, which is not the same thing as infinity.

Answer 4

Division by zero is undefined. Many computer experiments have been done, and all return a different answer. If a unique answer was obtained then there would be a definition.

Undoubtedly the answer would be an extremely large answer. To verify this do a simple calculator experiment. Start out by dividing 5 by .1 and record your answer on a sheet of paper. The divide 5 by .01, record your answer. Keep adding a 0 to the right of the decimal point, (.001,.0001) for as many places as your calculator will accept. You will be able to see the solutions become extremely large. If you have a graphing calculator graph 5/x on the interval .0000000000001 to .1. This will give a picture of the behavior of a division as x approaches 0.

Answer 5

infinity
there are infinity zero in 5!
0+0+0+0+...+0=5

Answer 6

SERIOUSLY PEOPLE! The answer is NOT infinity! The answer is undefined because you CANNOT divide by zero. Some of you are confused, I think, about the use of division by zero with respect to limits. It's true that when you APPROACH zero in the denominator the answer APPROACHES infinity. However, it is entirely wrong to state that when the denominator IS zero, the answer IS infinity. When the denominator is zero, the answer is undefined. It just so happens that in some areas of mathematics, for ease of notation, we represent a number infinitesimally small and close to zero by simply putting a zero in the denominator, but that isn't really dividing by zero. But, outside of this scope, where zero isn't actually zero, a zero in the denominator is UNDEFINED.

By the way, Vampire is right when they say "Five of nothing is nothing" because five of nothing is 0/5, whereas nothing of five is 5/0, which is actually the question being asked.

Answer 7

the answer is 0

Answer 8

5 of nothing is nothing so the answer is 0

Answer 9

Your question is the same asking how fast you have to drive
to travel 5 meters in 0 seconds?

Imagine : Is it 0mps ? (no)
Is it 5 mps ? (no)

Yes the answer is "undefined" because the speed should be
infinity!

Answering "undefined" or "infinity" are both corect answers
because they mean the same

Answer 10

5/0 is NOT DEFINED.
5/0 is not infinity. 5/0 is not zero. 5/0 is not 5.
Division by zero is not defined.

Answer 11

The same problem i had, I used this freeware to find out ...

http://www.esbconsult.com/esbcalc/esbcalc.htm
This is what i got ....
5.00 / 0.00 = Error!

Then i tried here an online calculator ....
http://www.math.com/students/calculators/source/scientific.htm
Here also it is error.

Then i tried here
http://www.calculator.org/jcalc98.html
It says Infinity.00NaN

That means 5 / 0 = God !

Glory to the great lord, who made me, you and all. He is in Zero, He is in Infinity and all finite numbers in-between. He is also the Random Number. Only a true devotee of God can understand Zero and Infinity.