 | Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1852 - 228 pages
...would be stated thus : — To express the product of any number multiplied by any power of 10, remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are zeros used in writing the given multiplier. To express the quotient of a number divided by any power... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...prefixed when placed on the left of the decimal, and on the right of the decimal point. 110. A decimal may be multiplied by 10, 100, 1000, &c., by removing the decimal point as many places towards the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier. If there be not as many places, make the... | |
 | William Frederick Greenfield - 1853 - 228 pages
....4086382 .2709 .1377382 Ans. V. TO MULTIPLY DECIMALS. Rule— I. To multiply by 10, 100, 1000, &c. remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier, supplying ciphers on the right to make up any deficiency. 2. To multiply two decimal fractions, multiply... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - Arithmetic - 1854 - 336 pages
...by forty-eight thousand. Ans. 2304. *9. To multiply a decimal fraction by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier. The product of 0.2457 by 100 is 24.57. The product of 27.8056 by 1000 is 27805.6. Multiply the fi1-st... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1854 - 152 pages
...MULTIPLY by 10, 100, or 1 with any other number of nothings annexed, it is only necessary to remove the decimal point as many places to the right, as there are nothings in the multiplier, thus — 46-78 multiplied by 10, becomes 467-8. Ans. 107-594 1743-9392... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1854 - 306 pages
...quills cost ? Ans. $1,80. Tu multiply decimals by 10, 100, 1000, 4-c., remove the decimal pnint us many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier, agreeably to Article 13. Removing the decimal point one figure to the right increases every figure... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1855 - 388 pages
...0-58. Ans. 0-824+. 15 Divide 0-9009 by 0-4051. Ans. 2-223+. 57. We may, obviously, divide any decimal by 10, 100, 1000, &c., by removing the decimal point as many •places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor ; when there are not so many figures at the left of the decimal... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1855 - 396 pages
...be stated thus : — (b.) To express the product of any number multiplied by any power of 10, remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are zeros used in writing the given multiplier. (c.) To express the quotient of a number divided by any... | |
 | Andrew Carrick (accountant.) - Ready-reckoners - 1856 - 34 pages
...decimal point on the left of them. When the multiplier is 10, 100, 1000, &c., the operation is performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier. Division. — (') Divide as in whole numbers, and for decimals, from the right of the quotient, point... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1856 - 312 pages
...'001728 by 4'8. 7. Divide 25'49P52 by 24'6. 8. Divide 2448 by '012 ART. 152. A decimal may be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., by removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. If necessary, prefix ciphers to the dividend. f4'36 1 Divide... | |
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To multiply a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier ; and if there be not places enough in the number, annex ciphers. 
