 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1905 - 698 pages
...Thus 0.24779143 (8 decimal places) To Divide Decimals — Proceed as in simple division, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor. EXAMPLE 1.— Divide 4.756 by 3.8. 3.3 ) 4.7 5 6 0 0 ( 1.4 4 1 2 Ans. 33 145... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1905 - 1056 pages
...02~47791 43 (8 decimal places.) To Divide Decimals. — Proceed as in simple division, and point ofl'as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor. EXAMPLE 1. —Divide 4.756 by 3.3. ».3)4.75600(1.4415 Ans 38 146 132 EXAMPLE... | |
 | William Seneca Sutton, William Herschel Bruce - Arithmetic - 1906 - 296 pages
...decimals by decimals: Divide as in whole numbers. Point off in the quotient as many decimal places as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number of decimal places in the divisor, prefixing noughts when necessary. 501 . Give results : .2x200 .13... | |
 | George Soulé - Business mathematics - 1910 - 1042 pages
...decimal places as both the divisor and quotient, 3°. The quotient mnst contain as many decimal places as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number iu the divisor. 2. Divide 7898.56 by 2.4683. OPERATION. Explanation. — Here we have an excess of... | |
 | Earle Bertram Norris, Kenneth Gardner Smith, Ralph Thurman Craigo - Arithmetic - 1912 - 210 pages
...until the operation of dividing is finished. Divide as in simple numbers. Then point off from the right as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds that in the divisor. In other words, we subtract the number of decimal places in the divisor from the... | |
 | Earle Bertram Norris, Kenneth Gardner Smith, Ralph Thurman Craigo - Arithmetic - 1912 - 210 pages
...until the operation of dividing is finished. Divide as in simple numbers. Then point off from the right as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds that in the divisor. In other words, we subtract the number of decimal places in the divisor from the... | |
 | William Russell Will - Business mathematics - 1913 - 320 pages
...(2) Divide as with whole numbers. (3) From the right of the quotient point off as many decimal places as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number of decimal places in the divisor. NOTE 1. If the quotient does not contain as many figures as it must... | |
 | Thomas J. Foster - Coal mines and mining - 1916 - 1230 pages
...Thus, .24779143 (8 decimal places) To Divide Decimals. — Proceed as in simple division, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor. EXAMPLE 1. — Divide 4.756 by 3.3. SOLUTION.— 3.3 ) 4.7 5 6 0 0 ( 1.4 4 1... | |
 | Columbus Norman Millard - Education - 1917 - 248 pages
...250 If division of decimal fractions is involved, the parent may follow the rule, " Point off as many places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor," as arithmetics formerly taught, and write the work like this, — .25)$62.525($250.1... | |
 | Gary R. Jensen - Education - 2003 - 402 pages
...the decimal expansions as if there were no decimal point present. and then point off from the right as many decimal places in the quotient as the number...decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number of those in the divisor. In practice. this is accomplished by moving the decimal point to the right... | |
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Divide as in the division of integers, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor. 
