The dromedary, or one-humped camel, was described by Linnaeus in 1758. There are no true wild dromedaries in the world today-they were domesticated between 4,000 and 2,000 B.C.E. for travel, meat and milk, and running, and became extinct in the wild around 2000 years ago.
Dividends and divisors are the two key ingredients that yield the quotient, or answer, to a division problem. The dividend is the number being divided, while the divisor is the number by which the dividend is divided. In other words, given aÃ·b, a is the dividend and b is the divisor.
Dividing Fractions: Fitting the Divisor. In this lesson we solve fraction divisions by thinking how many times the divisor fits or goes into the dividend. For example, the fraction 1/4 goes into five 20 times, so 5 Ã· (1/4) = 20. The lesson has lots of exercises with visual models and many word problems.