Why can you multiply by zero but not divide?

Question

Go easy on me.

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

When you multiply by zero, you always get zero, but if you do a divisor by zero, you are essentially asking what number multiples by 0 to give you the dividend, but of course no number multiples by zero to give you anything other than 0, so you can’t answer

When you divide 0 by 0 you get the opposite problem, any and all numbers multiplied by zero give you zero, so again, you can’t give one answer