 | Warren H. Sadler - 1888 - 426 pages
...necessary. 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... | |
 | Charles Scott Venable - Arithmetic - 1888 - 402 pages
...further to the left. 100).009 .00009 503. To divide by 10, 100, 1000, etc., move the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. NOTE. — To divide by 5, 50, 500, etc., move the decimal point one, two, three, etc., places to the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Caton's national business college, Buffalo, N.Y. - 1889 - 330 pages
...if necessary. NOTE 8.— 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... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - Arithmetic - 1889 - 248 pages
...a yard? DECIMALS. NOTE.— To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc., remove the decimal point aa many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers to the dividend if necessary. 602. Find the cost of 3235 pounds of coal at $5.25... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler, William Russell Will - Business mathematics - 1890 - 316 pages
...necessary. 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... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1890 - 178 pages
...decimal ciphers. 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. REV1EW PROBLEMS. 1. Express decimally 16| thousandths. 2. Change .325 to a common fraction. 3. Change... | |
 | Henry Holmes Belfield - Arithmetic - 1891 - 362 pages
...with the same principle, a number is divided by 10, 100, 1000, etc., by removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers when necessary. Thus: 57.6-5-10=5.76; 57.6-i-100=.576: 896.4 -=-1000=. 8964 ; .5-5-10=... | |
 | John Groesbeck - 1891 - 426 pages
...3.265f or 3.265 +. Note 2. — 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. Note 3. — Complex decimals should be made pure, or both dividend and divisor reduced to a common... | |
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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. 
