 Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result as the first term of the quotient. Multiply the whole divisor by the first term of the quotient, and subtract the product from the dividend.  First Year Algebra - Page 92by Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - 1912 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1864 - 420 pages
...Hence, the RULE. Arrange loth dividend and divisor according to the decreasing powers of some letter. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, and write the result for the first term of the quotient. Multiply the whole divisor by this term, and subtract the product... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1864 - 386 pages
...divisor. (74.) From this investigation we deduce the following BULK FOR THE DIVISION OF POLYNOMIALS. 2. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, the result will be the first term of the quotient. 3. Multiply the divisor by this term, and subtract... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1864 - 444 pages
...quotient similarly arranged. We can therefore obtain this term of the quotient, by simply dividing the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, thus arranged. The operation may then be continued in the manner of long division in Arithmetic; each... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1866 - 252 pages
...and divisor with reference to the leading letter, and place the divisor on the right of the dividend. 2. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, for the first term of the quotient. Multiply the divisor by this term, and subtract the product from... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1866 - 250 pages
...and divisor with reference to the leading letter, and place the divisor on the right of the dividend. 2. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor, for the first term of the quotient. Multiply the divisor by this term, and subtract the product from... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1852 - 422 pages
...and divisor with reference to a certain letter, and place the divisor on the right of the dividend. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor ; the result will be the first term of the quotient. Multiply the divisor ty this term, and subtract... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard, William Downs Henkle - Algebra - 1866 - 546 pages
...both dividend and divisor according to the ascending or descending powers of the same letter in both. 2. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of th« divisor ; the result will be the first term of the quotient, by which multiply all the terms in... | |
 | William Rossiter - 1867 - 250 pages
...and in the third no x at all. This division, from its simplicity, is already arranged : Secondly : Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisor ; that is, divide #3 by x ; the quotient is x ; which put on the right hand, in the usual place for... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1867 - 316 pages
...polynomials, the following RULE. L Arrange the dividend and divisor with reference to the tame letter : II. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of the divisoi\for the first term of the quotient. Multiply the divisor by this term of the quotient, and... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1867 - 376 pages
...of each quantity so that tlie highest pmcers of one. of the letters may stand before the next lower. Divide the first term of the dividend by the first term of thf divisor, and set the result in the quotient, with its proper sign. Multiply the whole divisor by... | |
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