 | 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
...places is sufficiently exact for 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
...places is sufficiently exact for 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... | |
 | Daniel O'Sullivan - 1883 - 442 pages
...obtained. 66. Rule for Simple Division, (a) when the divisor is a power of 10: Remove the decimal point of the dividend as many places to the left as there are ciphers i1l the divisor. Take the resulting numbe1 for quotient, jn which case there will be no "remainder;"... | |
 | M. French Swarthout - 1884 - 236 pages
....4375. LESSON X. NOTE. — Division of decimals is simplified by making the divisor a whole number, and removing the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in t\\e AYv\swc. ?>\\o\Ai\. \X\fc Sxtfvdend be a whole number, annex... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1886 - 392 pages
...there are zeros in the multiplier. To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc., we have only to move the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left, prefixing zeros if necessary, as there are zeros in the divisor. Thus, 100 x 36.123 = 3612.3, and 1000... | |
 | 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 - Arithmetic - 1888 - 392 pages
...directly over that in the 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... | |
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When the divisor is 10, 100, 1000, etc., the quotient may be obtained, at once, by removing the decimal point in the dividend, as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. 
