First Lessons in Arithmetic Including the Fundamental Rules |
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Page 148 - For the first partial dividend take only as many figures at the left of the given dividend as would, if considered apart from the rest, express a number great enough to contain the divisor. 3. Find the greatest number by which you can multiply the divisor to make a product not greater than this partial dividend, and place it in the quotient. 4. Multiply the divisor by this number, subtract the product from the partial dividend, and to the remainder annex the next figure of the dividend. If the result...
Page 147 - DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another.
Page 148 - PROOF. — - Multiply the divisor by the quotient, and to the product add the remainder, if any.
Page 9 - FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE (Class of 1859) OF MILFORD, PENNSYLVANIA GIFT OF MRS. CHARLES S. PEIRCE June 28, 1915 3 2044 097 000 855 SHELDONS' COMPLETE ARITHMETIC, ORAL AND WRITTEN EXERCISES, SHELDON & COMPANY NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.
Page 101 - The sign — , is called minus, a term signifying less. When placed between two numbers it denotes that the one on the right is to be taken from the one on the left. Thus, 6—4=2, denotes that 4 is to be taken from 6.
Page 135 - ART. 39. First Method of Proof. — Multiply the multiplier by the multiplicand, and if the result is like the first product, the work is supposed to be right.
Page 101 - PROOF. — Add the remainder to the subtrahend ; if the sum is equal to the minuend, the work is correct.
Page 101 - For convenience, begin at the units' column to subtract, thus : — 3. As 8 units can not be taken from 7 units, take 1 ten 'which equals 10 units, from the 9 tens; 10 units and 7 units equal 17 units ; 8 units from 17 units leave 9 units to be written in the place of units.
Page 45 - There are 7 days in a week ; how many days are there in 5 weeks ? 14.
Page 147 - Begin at the left hand, divide successively each figure of the dividend by the divisor, and write the result in the same order in the quotient.