Answer:
compatible numbers are numbers that we can use to solve complex calculations in a simpler manner.
instead of dividing 2,017 by 2, we can decompose this division in the following way:
even if you do not like math, you are probably able to divide 2,000 by 2 = 1,000
we still have 17 marbles left, and since you should know that 2 x 8 = 16
we calculated that each brother received 1,000 + 8 = 1,008 marbles and they had 1 left over.
