 | Franklin Sherman Hoyte, Harriet E. Peet - Arithmetic - 1927 - 440 pages
...divided. (6) A dividend is a sum paid on each share of stock from the profits of a corporation. Division. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. Divisor. A divisor is a number by which another number is divided. Draft. A draft is a written order... | |
 | Nels Johann Lennes - Arithmetic - 1923 - 504 pages
...emphasis on the fact that 12-5-3 = 4, because 3 X 4 «• 12. In these schools division is denned as "the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another." Division is said to answer the question, "How many times may one number be subtracted from another?"... | |
 | United States. Flight Standards Service - Airframes - 1976 - 568 pages
...(3) (5) (2) - 210 7 21 105 7 3 35 X3 X5 X2 or X5 X2 X6 21 105 210 35 6 210 Division of WhoU Numbers The process of finding how many times one number is contained in a second number is called division. The first number is called the divisor, the second the dividend,... | |
 | Gerard W. Kelly - Mathematics - 1984 - 132 pages
...something wrong in the multiplication, in the check, or in both. V. DIVISION 5-1. Basic Principles Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. It is a rapid way of subtracting. Thus, 84-2=4 means that 2 is contained in 8 four times, or that 2... | |
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The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide. 
