8 times what equals 2?

8 times what equals 2? In other words, what do you multiply by 8 to get 2? If "x" is "what" in the sentence, "8 times what equals 2?", then the equation to solve the problem is as follows:

8 • x = 2

Which can be written as:

8x = 2

To solve the equation above, we need to remove the 8 on the left side to make the x alone. To do that, we divide both sides by 8.

8x/8 = 2/8

8x/8 is x and 2/8 is 0.25 which means our equation will look like this:

x = 0.25

Thus, the answer to "8 times what equals 2?" is 0.25.

To double-check our work, multiply 0.25 by 8 to see that it equals 2. (Note that our answer on this page is rounded to 4 digits if necessary.)

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