 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1866 - 184 pages
...chees. for 4 dollars, and a box of raisins for 5 dollars , how much was the entire cost ? SUBTRACTION. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The Terms in Subtraction are three, the Minuend, Subtrahend, Remainder. 1. The Minuend is the number to... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 350 pages
...have all? 29. From the sum of 45003 and 13478, take their difference. DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES. 28. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The Difference is the number found by taking one number from another. It is also called the Remainder.... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1873 - 260 pages
...in bank, drew out $978 : how much remained in the bank ? DEFINITIONS, PEINOIPLES, AND KULE. Art. 29. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The Difference or Remainder is the number found by subtracting one number from another. The Minuend is... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1856 - 400 pages
...as much as A, B, and C together: what sum do they all possess? Ans. $722. IV. SUBTRACTION. ART. 42. SUBTRACTION is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The larger number is the Minuend; the less, the Subtrahend; the number left, the Difference or Remainder.... | |
 | Philotus Dean - Arithmetic - 1874 - 472 pages
...numbers from the decimal to other scales. CHAPTER IV. SUBTRACTION OF SIMPLE WHOLE NUMBERS. Art. 35. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The terms in subtraction are, minuend, subtrahend, and difference, or remainder. The minuend is that number... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1875 - 180 pages
...many remain ? 40. Take 12 from 23, and how many remain ? 41. What is the difference between 14 and 6 ? 42. What is the difference between 20 and 8 ? 43....and 6 ? 46. What is the difference between 25 and 9 ? O. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers ; the result is called... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1876 - 588 pages
...find a difference. This general analytic process has received the name of Subtraction. Definition. — Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The difference between two numbers is a number which added to the less will give a sum equal to the greater.... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1876 - 236 pages
...in bank, drew out $978: how much remained in the bank? DEFINITIONS, PRINCIPLES, AND BULE. Art. 29. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The Difference or Remainder is the number found by subtracting one number from another. The Minuend is... | |
 | James E. Ryan - Arithmetic - 1877 - 212 pages
...questions under Table A may be applied to Table B, and, when so applied, are numbered 23, 24, 25, etc. 38. Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The larger number is called the minuend ; the smaller, the subtrahend ; the difference is sometimes called... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Mental arithmetic - 1877 - 150 pages
...in money: how much money did I receive? 25. A boy had 18 marbles and lost 10 : how many had he then? Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers. The larger number is called the minuend; the smaller number, the subtrahend; and the result, the difference... | |
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Subtraction is the process of finding the difference between two numbers ; the result is called the Difference or Remainder. The sign of subtraction is written thus, — , and is read minus. 
