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Here in the above example we are taking away some balls from the bigger group

of balls.

We need to find out the total number of objects in the group and the number
of objects being taken away repeatedly.

So the division statement can be written as

total no of objects in the group ÷ the number that is taken away = no of times

it is taken away

OR
total no of objects ÷ no of objects in each group = no of groups

in this example

total no of balls =25

no of balls taken away each time= 5

25-5=20, 20-5=15, 15-5=10, 10-5=5, 5-5=0

After subtracting 5 ,5times from 25 we get 0.

Therefore the division statement is

25 ÷ 5 = 5