 | Popular educator - 1880 - 852 pages
...DIVISION, therefore, is finding a quotient, which multiplied into the divisor will produce the dividend. As the product of the divisor and quotient is equal...The other will, of course, be the quotient. Suppose, for instance, that aid is to be divided by a. The factors a and bd will produce the dividend. The first... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1882 - 416 pages
...number. 2°. When the divisor is an abstract number, the quotient and dividend are like numbers. 3°. The product of the divisor and quotient is equal to the dividend. WRITTEN EXERCISES. 107. 1. Divide 952 by 4. EXPLANATION.—Write the divisor on the left Divisor. Divid.... | |
 | Popular educator - 1884 - 904 pages
...them shall be the divisor. The other will, of course, be the quotient. Suppose, for instance, that aid is to be divided by a. The factors a and bd will produce...first of these, being a divisor, may be set aside as the one factor. The other factor is the quotient. 93. When the divisor therefore is found as a factor... | |
 | John Casey - Geometry - 1888 - 300 pages
...factors. 4°. The lay of the quotient of two numbers is equal to the difference of their logs. For since the product of the divisor and quotient is equal to the dividend, the sum of their logs is equal to the log of the dividend ; .•. log quotient = log dividend - log divisor.... | |
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As the product of the divisor and quotient is equal to the dividend, the quotient may be found, by resolving the dividend into two such factors, that one of them shall be the divisor. The other will, of course, be the quotient. Suppose abd is to be divided... 
