 | Isaac Dalby - Mathematics - 1807 - 968 pages
...contained 5 times in the Intur : or if 10 be divided into S equal parts, each part will be five. 93. The number to be divided is called the dividend. That by which you divide the divisor. And the number of times the latter is contained in the former is called the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...performing subtraction. The number to be divided is called the dividend ; the dividing number is called the divisor ; and the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend, is named the quotient : while what is left after the division is termed the remainder. Rule. — When... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...to be divided, is called the dividend; the number by which the dividend is to be divided, is called the divisor; and the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend, is called the quotient. If there be any thing left aftef performing the operation, that excess is called... | |
 | Francis Walkingame - 1833 - 204 pages
...how often one number is contained in another : or to divide a number into any equal parts required. The number to be divided is called the Dividend; that by which we divide is the Divisor ; and the number obtained by dividing is the Quotient ; which shows how many times the... | |
 | Charles Potts - Arithmetic - 1835 - 202 pages
...contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the divisor. And the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient. If there is any number left after the division is finished, it is called the... | |
 | Lewis Joerres - Arithmetic - 1842 - 190 pages
...proved by division, and and a question of division may be proved by multiplication. In division the sum to be divided is called the dividend, that by which we divide is the divisor, and the result of the division is called the quotient. Example: How many 5's are contained... | |
 | mrs. Henry Ayres - Arithmetic - 1843 - 470 pages
...or may be taken from it. The number to be divided is called the dividend; the number you divide by, the divisor, and the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend, the quotient; when the dividend does not contain the divisor an equal number of times, the figures that are over... | |
 | mrs. Henry Ayres - 1846 - 400 pages
...or may be taken from it. The number to be divided is called the dividend; the number you divide by, the divisor ; and the number of times the divisor is contained in . the dividend, the quotient: when the dividend does not contain the divisor an equal number of times, the figures that are over... | |
 | William Vogdes - 1849 - 134 pages
...the dividend ; the number you divide by is called the divisor, and shows how many parts there are ; and the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient, and expresses one of these parts. Q. Does division never mean any thing else... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1849 - 162 pages
...we divide 20 by 5, we shall have the quotient 4. It follows, from this, that the quotient indicates the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend ; the dividend being only the result of a multiplication, of which the divisor and the quotient are the two... | |
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Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The Dividend is the number divided. 
