 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...; or mills to dollars, divide by 1000. Cents or mills may be reduced directly to dollars by placing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor (Art. 64). Examples. 4. In 691000 mills how many dollars ? Ans. $691. 5. In... | |
 | Adolf Sonnenschein - 1870 - 276 pages
...468-12 x 299-875 to the nearest integer. § 5. DIvISION. CASE I. By a power of 10. (Cf. p. 107.) Shift the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers if necessary, and curtail the decimal thus obtained. ^4-... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 350 pages
...the division to four or five decimal places. 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 th". divisor. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Reduce yf-j to a decimal. 2. Reduce 2g700 to a decimal.... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1873 - 260 pages
...carrying the division to three decimal places. 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. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Express decimally ^ of one hundredth. 2. Reduce y^^ to... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1871 - 384 pages
...the required denomination. Since the divisor is always 10, 100, 1000, &c., 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. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Reduce 2A 5 to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1871 - 350 pages
...( + ) can be used. NOTE 3. — When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers. Thus 1.25... | |
 | Daniel O'Sullivan - 1872 - 382 pages
...convert a DECIMAL fraction into a simple number, we set down the numerator (by itself), and remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the denominator. Thus, -3s=3-+10=-3; i§g=789-r-i00=7-89; t§io=67i ,000= -067 ; &c. XOTE.... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1873 - 362 pages
...; or mills to dollars, divide by 1000. Cents or mills may be reduced directly to dollars by placing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor (Art. 64). Examples. 4. In 691000 mills how many dollars ? Ans. $691. 5. In... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1874 - 346 pages
...3. Divide 37.4 by 4.5. Ans. 3.4. 4. Divide 586. 4 by 375. 5. Divide 94.0369 by 81 .032. NOTE. — 3. When any decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100,...&c,, the division is made by removing the decimal poir.t as many platen to the left, fix there are O's in t/ie dinner ; and if there be not eo many figures... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1874 - 490 pages
...required denomination. Since the divisor is always 10, 100, 1000, &*., the operation is performed hy removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers when necessary. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Reduce 2A 5 to... | |
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When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers. 
