with the second, and so on to the end.
SECTION IV. DIVISION.
- Suppose I ask whether 156 can be divided into a number of parts each of which is 13, or how many thirteens 156 contains; I propose a question, the solution of which is called DIVISION. In this case, 156 is called the dividend, 13 the divisor, and the number of parts required is the quotient; and when I find the quotient, I am said to divide 156 by 13.
- The simplest method of doing this is to subtract 13 from 156, and then to subtract 13 from the remainder, and so on; or, in common language, to tell off 156 by thirteens. A similar process has already occurred in the exercises on subtraction, Art. (46). Do this, and mark one for every subtraction that is made, to remind you that each subtraction takes 13 once from 156, which operations will stand as follows:
- 156
- 13 1
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- 143
- 13 1
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- 130
- 13 1
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- 117
- 13 1
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- 104
- 13 1
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- 91
- 13 1
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- 78
- 13 1
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- 65
- 13 1
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- 52
- 13 1
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