The term dividend is used to indicate the amount that you wish to divide up. It is the quantity or number being divided.
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a number by which another number, the dividend, is divided.
In the sentence 8 divided by 4 equals 2, 8 is the dividend.
A divisor is the number that divides the dividend, which is the number that is being divided.
an amount of money a company earns or its funds
The three parts to a division problem are: Dividend, Divisor, and Qoutient. To calculate the value of any of the terms, two of the terms need to be known values. To calculate the dividend, multiply the quotient by the divisor.