 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...there are as many dollars as 1000 mills are contained times in 8000 mills, or$S. RULE. To reduce mitts to cents, divide by 10 ; cents to dollars, divide...Ans. 97 cents. 8. In 36030 mills how many dollars? 9. Reduce 875 mills to cents. Ans. 87J cents. . 10. Reduce 16090 cents to dollars. Ans. $160.90. 11. Reduce... | |
 | Adolf Sonnenschein - 1870 - 276 pages
...468-12 x 299-875 to the nearest integer. § 5. DIvISION. CASE I. By a power of 10. (Cf. p. 107.) Shift the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers if necessary, and curtail the decimal thus obtained. ^4- 100 to 5 places. Ar-100=... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1873 - 260 pages
...carrying the division to three decimal places. 2. To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc., Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Express decimally ^ of one hundredth. 2. Reduce y^^ to a decimal. 3. Change .0325... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 350 pages
...the division to four or five decimal places. 2. To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc., Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in th". divisor. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Reduce yf-j to a decimal. 2. Reduce 2g700 to a decimal. 3. Change... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1858 - 378 pages
...denomination. Since the divisor is always 10, 100, 1000, &c., the operation i.3 performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers when necessary. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Reduce aA 5 to myriares. 2. Reduce ,M 403... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1871 - 350 pages
...( + ) can be used. NOTE 3. — When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers. Thus 1.25 -i- 10 = .125 ; and 1.7... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1871 - 336 pages
...100, 1000, etc., the quotient may be obtained, at once, by removing the decimal point in the dividend, as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. For, since the value denoted by figures is multiplied by 10 by re moving the decimal point one place... | |
 | Daniel O'Sullivan - 1872 - 382 pages
...convert a DECIMAL fraction into a simple number, we set down the numerator (by itself), and remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the denominator. Thus, -3s=3-+10=-3; i§g=789-r-i00=7-89; t§io=67i ,000= -067 ; &c. XOTE. — The Fractional... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1866 - 212 pages
...are ciphers in the multiplier. Thus; $12.50=1250 cents ; $2.255=2255 mills. 3. In dividing, move the point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. Thus ; 275 cents =$2.75 ; 4255 mills = $4.255. EXAMPLES FOE PEACTICE. 1. How many dollars in 145 cents?... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...If the denominator be 10, or any power of 10, we can at once express it as a decimal by placing the point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. Sometimes the divisor will not terminate, but the same figures will be repeated over again. Decimals... | |
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Cents or mills may be reduced directly to dollars by placing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor (Art. 
