 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Arithmetic - 1818 - 78 pages
...dividend. The sum by which we divide is called the divisor, The result is balled the quotient. SIMPLE DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another of Uie same kind. ILLUSTRATION. Take in the hand 9 cents — count them out into parcels if two each.... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1826 - 114 pages
...denomination, Compound of more than one, or different denominations. What is Compound Division then? Ans. It IS the process of finding how many times, one number is contained in another, of different denominations. With which denomination do you begin to divide? Any. The highest. How divide... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1827 - 216 pages
...equal parts, or finding hnw many times one number is contained in another, called ? Д. Division. What is the process of finding how many times, one number is contained in another of the same kind or denomination, called ? A. Simple Division. How many parts is it divided into ?... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1830 - 286 pages
...? One eighth (i) of 56 ? One ninth (£) of 108 ? One twelfth (TV) of 144 ? Q. Ша1 is this method of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of dividing a number inte equal parts, called ? A. Division. Q. What is the method of fmding haw many... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 204 pages
...by which we find how many times one number contains another, — and, by which we divide one given number into as many equal parts, as there are units in another given number. j Questions to be answered Orally. I (1) How many kinds of operations are practised |... | |
 | Robert Goodacre - 1839 - 320 pages
...2.410' volumes are printed of each, how many, volumes, are printed in a year ? DIVISION is the art of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or, it is the separating or dividing of any sum into any number of parts proposed. Thus, if a boy has 43... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1844 - 222 pages
...by which we find how many times one number contains another, — and, by which we divide one given number into as many equal parts, as there are units in another given number. Questions to be answered Orally. (1) How many kinds of operations are practised on numbers?... | |
 | Education - 1845 - 408 pages
...the words of the question itself, we might define division to be an operation by which we divide a number into as many equal parts as there are units in another number. 51. How many yards of stuff can I purchase for 20*. when one yard costs 5s. ? I can buy as... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 112 pages
...another. 1. In what does the solution of the preceding examples of this section, consist ? 2. What is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, called 1 Ans. It is called DIVISION. • I 3. What is the number to be divided, called ? Ans. The Dividend.... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 108 pages
...section, consist 1 Ans. It consists in finding how many times one nuntber is containtd in another. 2. What is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, called 1 Ans. It is called DIVISION. 3. What is the dumber to be divided, called ? Ans. The Dividend.... | |
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The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide. 
