 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.  Business Arithmetic - Page 28by Clarence Monroe Bookman - 1914 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - Business mathematics - 1882 - 324 pages
...decimal places of the dividend. 3. 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, prefixing ciphers to the dividend, if necessary. EXAMPLES. 144. 1. Divide three thousand four hundred... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 364 pages
...most business transactions. To divide by 10, 100, 1000, etc., remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor (137, 4O4). Find the value of 8. 75-i-.75. 9. .75-^75. 7.5-i, 75. 645.5-^1000. $56-r-.007. 10. 11.... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1883 - 348 pages
...most business transactions. To divide by 10, 100, 1000, etc., remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor (137, 4O4). Find the value of 8. 75-=-.75. 13. .564-1.12. 18. .0844-8. 9. :75-=-75. 14. 17.64-10. 19.... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1883 - 368 pages
...decimal places. 2. To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc. : Rule. — Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Reduce Tfj to a decimal. 2. Reduce -5-5^ to a decimal. 3. Change .325 to a common... | |
 | C. Frusher Howard - Ready-reckoners - 1884 - 144 pages
...dividend. To divide by any number expressed by 1 and any number of ciphers, remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. - JO00 =74.864 To Divide by adding the Difference of 10, 100, 1000, etc. when the Divisor is something... | |
 | Waite A. Schoemaker - Arithmetic - 1887 - 454 pages
...product of two factors, one of which is 10, 100, 1000, etc., remove the figures of the other factor as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the 10, 100, 1000, etc. 1. Give answers at a glance. No pencil-work. 10 (groups) of 57 = . 1000 (groups)... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 388 pages
...dividend. To divide by 10, 100, 1000, etc., it is necessary only to move the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. To divide by .1, .01, .001, etc., it is necessary only to move the decimal point in the dividend as... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1888 - 372 pages
...the divisor is always 10, 100, 1000, etc., the operation is performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers when necessary. 2. Reduce 40063 liters to hektoliters. Ans. 400.63 HI. 3. In 136.7... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler - 1888 - 426 pages
...NOTE 3. — Decimals are divided by 10, 100, 1000, etc., by. moving the decimal point of the dividend as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. NOTE 4. — Complex decimals, if terminate, are usually expanded to simple decimals before applying... | |
 | Charles Scott Venable - Arithmetic - 1888 - 242 pages
.... . - , ..I. ui places further to the left. 293. To divide by 10, 100, etc., move the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. 294. Find the quotients in the following : 295. To divide when the divisor is n decimal. 1. Find the... | |
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