Practical Arithmetic: Uniting the Inductive with the Synthetic Mode of Instruction. For Schools and Academies

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Ivison & Phinney, 1858 - Arithmetic - 384 pages
 

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Page 69 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
Page 123 - Divide the numerator of the dividend by the numerator of the divisor.
Page 344 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient, increased by 1 , will be the answer.
Page 317 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 53 - It shows that the numbers between which it is placed are to be multiplied together ; thus, the expression 7 x 5 = 35 is read, 7 multiplied by 5 is equal to 35.
Page 111 - Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a common denominator.
Page 344 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 313 - The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides.
Page 310 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 257 - ... any number divided by 9, will leave the same remainder, as the sum of its figures, or digits, divided by 9 : which may be thus demonstrated.

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