## 52. The First Question

- Do you know division? - asked the Black Queen.
- Of course! - Alice replied confidently.
- Excellent! Suppose you divide eleven thousand, eleven hundred, and eleven by three. What is the remainder of the division? If you like, you can use a pencil and paper.

Alice set to work and performed the necessary calculations.

- I got a remainder of two, - she said.
- Wrong! - the Black Queen triumphantly cried. - You don't know division!
- Not a bit of it! - the White Queen confirmed.

Why don't you take a pencil and paper and check if Alice's answer is correct? Just in case, take a look at the solution provided at the end of the book.
52. The first question. Alice made a mistake by recording eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven as 11111, which is incorrect! The number 11111 is eleven thousand one hundred and eleven! To understand how to correctly write the dividend, let's add eleven thousand, eleven hundred, and eleven in a column:

11000

1100

12111

We see that eleven thousand eleven hundred and eleven is 12111, which is a number divisible by 3 without a remainder.