1. What Does Divisor Mean
2. What Is The Divisor In A Math Problem
3. What Is The Zero Divisor In Math

nounMathematics.

Noun Mathematics. A number by which another number, the dividend, is divided. A number contained in another given number a certain integral number of times, without a remainder. Origin of divisor. A divisor in math is the number you are dividing with in an equation. EX: 20/4=5 The dividend is 20 The divisor is 4 The quotient is 5 20 divided by 4 equals 5.

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• Nobody in the world knows yet whether that number has a divisor or not.

• (a) The divisor (.05) may be converted into a whole number by multiplying it by 100.

  Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education|Ontario Ministry of Education

• The divisor, since it ends in 5, must be multiplied by 2, giving 730.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884|Various

• Now, into the familiar sum of existence, which he knew from divisor to quotient, was suddenly shot a new factor—a woman.

• Division (÷) was formerly indicated by placing the dividend above a horizontal and the divisor below.

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