 | Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1877 - 496 pages
...away 4 peaches from the number ? How many were left ? How many peaches did he receive in all? This process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of separating a number of things into equal parts, is called division. The number to be divided... | |
 | Lydia Nash - Arithmetic - 1878 - 114 pages
...two hundred and forty-nine. 62. Multiply eight hundred forty-six millions, by five DIVISION. DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the Dividend ; the number by which we divide, the Divisor ; and... | |
 | Edwin Pliny Seaver, George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1878 - 360 pages
...number is contained in another); and in the second that we find one of the equal parts of a number. 89. The process of finding how many times one number is contained in another or of finding one of the equal parts of a number is division. 90. The number to be divided is the dividend.... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1878 - 154 pages
...If a man can build 7 rods of fence in one day, in how many days can he build 35 rods? DEFINITIONS. The process of finding how many times one number is contained in another is called Division. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. The number by which the dividend... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1879 - 446 pages
...be bought for 12 cents. 2. If I buy 5 apples for 10 cents, how much do I pay for each? 66. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of finding one of the equal parts of a number. 67. The Dividend is the number to be divided. The... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1879 - 190 pages
...change a three-cent piece ; how much more money did the one obtain than the other ? LESSON XIV. DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or the process of separating a number into any proposed number of equal parts. The result obtained... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1879 - 200 pages
...etc.? Why? How, when the multiplier has any number of ciphers at the right? DEFINITIONS. 42. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. 43. The Dividend is the number to bo divided. 44. The Divisor is the number by which we divide. 45.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1879 - 238 pages
...distinguish them from unbroken or whole numbers, which are called Integers, or Integral Numbers. 59. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another ; or of finding one of the equal parts of a number. The DIVIDEND is the number to be divided. The DIVISOK... | |
 | Edward Olney - Arithmetic - 1879 - 420 pages
...into 6 equal parts, how many are there in each part? 6 times what number makes 18 ? 64. Division is a process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. Division enables us also to separate a number into any number of equal parts, and find how many there... | |
 | Edward Olney - Arithmetic - 1879 - 392 pages
...the farm oost than 4 horses and 10 cows, at the saae rate? ANS., $377. SECTION VII. 69. Division is a process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. Thus, when we find how many 9's there are in 36, we divide 36 by 9. This is expressed by saying, "... | |
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The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide. 
