 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 358 pages
...16§X3=.4»s. 50. f 25. log X 9 = Ans. 97£. CASE II. ART. 152. To multiply a whok number by a fraction. Multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand...there are units in the multiplier. Multiplying by a fraction, or part of a unit, is taking a part of the multiplicand. Therefore, Multiplying by J, is... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1868 - 168 pages
...is taking the multiplicand three times: thus, 3 times 4, or 4+4+4=12, &c. Hence, Multiplying Ity any whole number, is taking the multiplicand as many times, as there are units in the multiplier. Note.— The application of this principle to fractional multipliers will be illustrated under fractions.... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1869 - 336 pages
...; foe, make, do, produce. 122 PRODUCT. — MULTIPLICATION TABLE OF 0. twice ? The number, found by taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, is called the Product,* which, literally, means that which is brought from; so that — PRODUCT is... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - 1875 - 392 pages
...the multiplicand once ; Multiplying by 2 is taking the multiplicand twice ; and Multiplying by any whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. NOTES. — i. The term multiplication, from the Latin mvltiplico, multus, many, and plico, to fold,... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 682 pages
...subtrahend is the greater. Next consider Multiplient ion. And first, multiplying by a positive quantity is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, and does not change its sign. For example, 7ax3 means Ta taken three times, and equals 21a; so —... | |
 | Popular educator - 1880 - 852 pages
...of tho same kind as tho multiplicand. 68. / ' u plain, therefore, that multiplying by a whole nvmber is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Thus multiplying a by 1, U taking the multiplicand once, as a. Multiplying a by 2, is taking the multiplicand... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler - 1888 - 426 pages
...how many repetitions of the addend are required ; and the Product is the result obtained by repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. REM. 2. — The multiplicand and multiplier are called factors of the product. REM. 3. — The Sign... | |
 | George Soulé - Arithmetic - 1888 - 568 pages
...result is decreasing. This is evident from the fact that multiplication is the process of repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, ami, therefore, when the multiplier is less than a unit, the multiplicand will be repeated only apart... | |
 | Caton's national business college, Buffalo, N.Y. - 1889 - 330 pages
...how many repetitions of the addend are required ; and the Product is the result obtained by repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. REM. 2. — The multiplicand and multiplier are called Factors of the product. REM. 3. — The Sign... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler, William Russell Will - Business mathematics - 1890 - 312 pages
...how many repetitions of the addend are required ; and the Product is the result obtained by repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. REM. 2.—The multiplicand and multiplier are called Factors of the product. REM. 3.—The Sign of... | |
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We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. 
