 | Engineering - 1902 - 514 pages
...dividend and proceed as in division of whole numbers ; in 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, prefixing ciphers to the quotient, if necessary. II. If in dividing one whole number by another there... | |
 | Robert Wahl, Max Henius - Brewing - 1902 - 1288 pages
...Decimals: 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. Ciphers must be added to the dividend to make its decimal places at least equal to... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 426 pages
...RULE. Proceed as in division of whole numbers, but 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 ciphers to the quotient when necessary. NOTE. In division it is usually best to carry on... | |
 | Jacob Henry Minick, Clement Carrington Gaines - Business mathematics - 1904 - 412 pages
...prefix a r'jjlipr t>i make the required number of decimal places. Hence, the quotient is .013. RULE. — Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right of...decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor. 1. If the number of figures in the quotient is less than the number of decimal places... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Arithmetic - 1904 - 656 pages
...dividend and proceed as in division of whole numbers ; in 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, prefixing ciphers to the quotient, if necessary. II. If in dividing one whole number by another there... | |
 | John Henry Moore - Business mathematics - 1904 - 404 pages
...When needed, annex ciphers to the dividend to make its places equal in number to those of the divisor. Divide as in whole numbers, and from, the right of the quotient point off as many places as tl'e number of places in the dividend exceeds those in the divisor. Do not commence the division... | |
 | 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 + 1.37 2.55 -.15 .05x200 .013 + .037... | |
 | School of Railway Signaling (Utica, N.Y.) - Railroads - 1910 - 446 pages
...EXPLANATION.—In this problem there are no decimal places in the divisor and three in the dividend; the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number of decimal places in the divisor by three, therefore three places must be pointed off in the quotient. (2) Divide 16.33 by 2.3. SOLUTION.—... | |
 | George Edward Atwood - 1910 - 392 pages
...many decimal places as there are decimal places in both factors. DIVISION OF DECIMALS. 120. RULE. — Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right of the quotient point off as many decimal places as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds th? number of decimal places... | |
 | 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... | |
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Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor. 
