...If you divide 45 oranges equally among 9 boys : how many oranges will each boy receive? Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The divisor is the number by which to divide. The dividend is the number to be divided. The quotient...

...away 4 peaches from the number ? How many were left ? How many peaches did he receive in all? This process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, or of separating a number of things into equal parts, is called division. The number to be divided is...

...process by which the preceding examples aro solved is called Division. DEFINITIONS. 36. 1. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. 2. The divisor is the number by which to divide ; the dividend is the number to be divided ; the quotient...

...Hence, we are to change the signs of its terms and add the result. 83. Define Division.^ Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. Division also enables us to separate a number into any number of equal parts, and find how many there...

...multiplier. DIVISION. 41. Division is the process of separating a number into equal parts, or it is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. 42. The Dividend is the number divided. 43. The Divisor is the number by which another number is divided....

...observations that this number equals the number of square feet ill the oblong. DIVISION. 124. Division is (1) the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another number; or (2), it is finding one of the equal parts of a number. . NOTE.—The word number as used...

...portion divided or separated : separation : difference in opinion, etc. : disunion : (arith.) the rule or process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. DIVISIONAL, di-vizh'un-al, adj. pertaining to or marking a diiñsion or separation. DIVISIVE, di-vfziv,...

...multiplied by 3. Q. 6. What is meant by division, and what sign is used to express it? A. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. A short, horizontal line with a point above and below it (-1-) when placed between numbers indicates...

...hour. How far apart will they be at the end of 205 hours ? Ans. 1,081 miles. DIVISION. 55. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another of the same kind. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is...

...FII^EMAJ^S COURSE IJM AF^ITHJVIETI<5. Copyright, 1898, by WS Carter. 49 — Division of Common Fractions is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another when one or both are Common Fractions. It may be required : 1. To divide a Fraction by a Whole Number,...