By using this site, you are accepting "session" cookies, as set out in the site's Privacy Policy
Cookies are also used to remember which page of the book you last viewed, so that when you revisit the site you automatically return to the last page you visited.
Close
Lesson 2
The Arithmetic of Powers
Multiplication by addition, and division by subtraction
The number 18 is the divisor, the number 6 is the dividend, and the number 3 is the quotient.
You have the divisor and the dividend reversed. In a division the number being divided is the dividend; the number doing the dividing is the divisor; and the result, of course, is the quotient.
