| Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1833 - 198 pages
...number contains another, — and, by which we divide one given number into as many equal parts, a* there are units in another given number. Questions...on numbers? (2) What are they called? (3) What is Addition5 (4) What is Subtraction? (5) What is Multiplication? (6) What is Division? (7) Propose a... | |
| Education - 1845 - 408 pages
...the words of the question itself, we might define division to be an operation by which we divide a number into as many equal parts as there are units in another number. 51. How many yards of stuff can I purchase for 20*. when one yard costs 5s. ? I can buy as... | |
| Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1852 - 230 pages
...units in another given number. Division is the operation by which we find how many times one nutntfer contains another, — and, by which we divide one...that you would solve by addition. ' (8) Propose a questionxthat you would solve by subtraction. (9) Propose a question that you would solve by multiplication.... | |
| Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1854 - 228 pages
...times one given number, as there are units in another given number. Division is the operation by whicfy we find how many times one number contains another,...parts, as there are units in another given number. Question* to be answered Orally. (1) How many kinds of operations are practised on numbers? (2) What... | |
| Bourdon (M., Louis Pierre Marie) - Arithmetic - 1858 - 262 pages
...ought to be 124 times greater, or equal to 124 times 7-JH, or equal to l||. In general, to divide a number into as many equal parts as there are units in another, is the same thing as to divide unity into as many equal parts as there are units in the second number,... | |
| Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1864 - 430 pages
...Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of separating one number into as many equal parts as there are units in another. 55. The Dividend is the number to be divided. 56. The Divisor is the number by which the dividend is... | |
| Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1866 - 338 pages
...Division is the method of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of separating one number into as many equal parts as there are units in another. 51. The Dividend, is the number to be divided. 52. The Divisor is the number by which the dividend... | |
| James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1868 - 200 pages
...finding how many times one number is contained in another ; or, DIVISION is the process of separating one number into as many equal parts as there are units in another number. The number to be divided is called the DIVIDEND ; the number by which to divide is the DIVISOR... | |
| David Henry Cruttenden - 1869 - 336 pages
...DIVISION is finding how many times one number measures, or is in another number, and also separating one number into as many equal parts as there are units in another number. •4. How many times will 3 ft measure 6 ft ? Separate 6 ft into 3 equal parts. How many times... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 296 pages
...5 cents are contained times in 20 cents, which are 4 times. Hence, etc. 127. Second. To separate a given number into as many equal parts as there are units in another. Ex. If 4 pencils cost 20 cents, what is the cost of 1 pencil ? Since 5 cents taken 4 times equals 20... | |
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