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What the term for the number doing the dividing is a division problem?
The number doing the dividing in a division problem
What do you call the the answer to a division problem?
The answer to a long division problem is a quotient.
What is the correct name for the number being divided?
The correct term is dividend. The number doing the dividing is the divisor and the answer is the quotient.
What is it called when the number doing the dividing in a division problem?
In the calculation 19 ÷ 3 = 6 and 1 over.* 19 is called the dividend * 3 is called the divisor * 6 is called the quotient * 1 is called the remainder
How dividing by decimal is similar from dividing whole number?
Consider 23/1.344 This can be written as 23000/1344 (we multiplied both numerator and denominator by 1000 and doing so does not change the original value). Lo and behold we have converted dividing by decimal to dividing whole numbers. Consider 23.089/4.6788 This can be written as 230890/46788 (we multiplied both numerator and denominator by 10000 and doing so does not change the original value). Lo and behold we have converted dividing by decimal to dividing whole numbers.
