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.
Therefore we can think of division as repeated subtraction. When we write: 60 Ã· 15 = 4, then 15, the number on the right of the division sign Ã· , is called the divisor. It is the number we have to multiply to get 60. 60 is called the dividend; it is the number being divided by 15. 4 is called the quotient. It is the number of times we must multiply 15 to get 60. In the figure, the quotient is the number of equal parts into which the dividend has been divided.