 | John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...in. 175 136 150 25 150 DIVISION. DIVISION is an operation by which we discover how often one given number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the Dividend, the number by which you divide is the Divisor, and that which expresses how often the Divisor is contained in the Dividend,... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...the tea weigh without the chests ? Ans. 9 1 2 pounds. u DIVISION. By division we ascertain how often one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the di-visor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1817 - 214 pages
...\thecbeeisl' Ans 912 pounds. DIVISION. ? By division we ascertam how often one number is ccutained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the divisor. The rnmber of times the dividend contains the divisor is called... | |
 | Stephen Pike - Arithmetic - 1824 - 212 pages
...would the tea weigh without the chests? Ans. 912 pounds. DIV1SION. By division we ascertain how often one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Arithmetic - 1825 - 224 pages
...There are four terms made use of to designate the different parts of the operation of dividing, viz. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which it is divided is called the divisor. The number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend is... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...14. How do you proceed when the multiplier is 9, 99, or any number of nines ? 4. SIMPLE DIVISION is the method of finding how many times one number is contained in another of the same denomination. Thus if it were required to know how many times 6 is contained in 18, the... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1830 - 294 pages
...so, division is a short way of performing many subtractions of the same number ; and may be defined, The method of finding how many times one number is contained in another, and also of dividing a number into any number of equal parts. In all cases, the process of division... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Arithmetic - 1830 - 306 pages
...of subtraction may be performed in a very compendious way, by a rule called DIVISION. Division shows the method of finding how many times "one number is contained in another, and what reniains. . In this case two terms are given to find a third. The number given to be divided... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1830 - 268 pages
...so, division is a short way of performing many subtractions of the same number ; and may be defined, The method of finding how many times one number is contained in another, and also of dividing a number into any number of equal parts. In all cases, the process of division... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1830 - 188 pages
...There are four terms made use of to designate the different parts of the operation of dividing : viz. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. The number by which it is divided is called the Dioi*or. The number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend is... | |
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DIVISION we find how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided, is called the DIVIDEND ; the number by which to divide is called the DIVISOR; the number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the QUOTIENT. 
