If the divisor contains decimal places, we may remove the decimal point from the divisor, provided we carry the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor. Social Arithmetic - Page 130by Frank Morton McMurry, Charles Beverley Benson - 1926Full view - About this book
| Thomas Clarke (accountant.) - Arithmetic - 1742 - 152 pages
...Denomination as are equal to an Unite of that Denomination the Fraction is of, and from the Product fh ike off as many Places to the Right, as there are Decimal Places in the Fraction to be valued ; thofe Places on the Left of the Stroke are Integers of the next inferior Denomination,... | |
| O. Silcock - 1851 - 48 pages
...Multiplication, place them as whole numbers, regardless of the points, but separate from the product, as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the multiplier and multiplicand together : if there are not so many places, add cyphers to the left to... | |
| Noble Heath - 1855 - 468 pages
...the dividend, when integral, or remove its comma, when decimal, (annexing ciphers if necessary •,) as many places to the right, as there are decimal places in the divisor, in which we then suppress the comma. Both numbers being thus (228) multiplied by the same number, the... | |
| Noble Heath - Arithmetic - 1856 - 472 pages
...of the dividend, when integral, or remove its comma, when decimal, (annexing ciphers if necessary,} as many places to the right, as there are decimal places in the divisor, in which we then suppress the comma. Both numbers being thus (228) multiplied by the same number, the... | |
| Dana Pond Colburn - 1858 - 288 pages
...perform the division as though the divisor were a whole number, and then remove the point in the quotient as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor. The quotient will thus contain aa many places of decimal fractions as there are in the dividend more... | |
| Daniel O'Sullivan - 1872 - 382 pages
...Decimal occurs in the Divisor : Regard the Divisor as a whole number, and remove the decimal point of the Dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the Divisor ; then, proceed as already directed. [§ 65, part 2 ; or § 67 — as the case may be.] NOTE. — In applying this... | |
| William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1877 - 430 pages
...examples may be treated in a similar manner, we have the following RULE. Move the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor (annexing ciphers if necessary); divide the result by the divisor regarded as an integer, pointing... | |
| Charles Mansford - 1879 - 120 pages
...are in the multiplier and multiplicand together. Division. RULE. — Remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor. Divide as in whole numbers, and mark off in the quotient as as many places as there now are in the... | |
| Clement Mackrow - 1879 - 552 pages
...18940 18940 " 33145 33145 * 14205 14206 DIVISION OP DECIMALS. RULE. — Remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor ; supply any deficiency by annexing ciphers. Then make the divisor a whole number, and proceed as in... | |
| George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1881 - 446 pages
...decimal places, remove the decimal point from the divisor, provided we carry the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor. If this be done, and the first figure of the quotient be placed over the right-hand figure of the first... | |
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