 | William Webster - Arithmetic - 1740 - 266 pages
...reduce a compound fraction to a fingle one, ie a fra&ion of a fraction, to a fraction of an unit* RUL E. Multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators for a denominator. EXAMPLES. Reduce f of 5 to a fingle fraction, putt Tf . Reduce * of $ of $ to a fingle fraction. 4... | |
 | William Tinwell - Arithmetic - 1805 - 212 pages
...thofe numerators and denominators which are divifible by one another, or by the fame number*; then multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators for a denominator of the fimple fraction required. Reduce to fimple fractions. anf. attf." 6. £ of | of 7 t 7. $ of6f... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 406 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. * REDUCE mixed numbers, if there be any, to equivalent fractions ; then multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator, which will give the product required. EXAMPLES. } . Required the product... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 620 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. * REDUCE mixed numbers, if there be any, to equivalent fractions ; then multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator, which will give the product required. EXAMPLES. 1 . Required the product... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Arithmetic - 1818 - 332 pages
...shall be 4. 3X4=12. And y=Ans. 15. Reduce 12 to a fraction whose denominator is 11. Ans. V¥i CASE V. To reduce a compound fraction to a simple one. ' RULE. Multiply all the numerators continually together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator of the simple... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...denominator shall be 1 1 . An«. Vi7CASE V. To Reduce a Compound Fraction to an Equivalent Simple One, * MULTIPLY all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator, and they will form the simple fraction sought. When part of the compound... | |
 | Martin Ruter - Arithmetic - 1828 - 180 pages
...denominator shall be 12. Ans. t. 3. Reduce 27 to a fraction whose denominator shall be 11. Ans. 2/T7CASE V. To reduce a compound fraction to a simple one. RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators for a new denominator, then reduce the fraction to its lowest... | |
 | Martin Ruter - Arithmetic - 1831 - 190 pages
...FRACTIONS* RULE. Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixed numbers to equivalent fractions; then multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator which will give the product required. MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTION*.... | |
 | Ira Wanzer - Arithmetic - 1831 - 408 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. RULE. Reduce whole and mixed numbers, (if any,) to improper fractions; then multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator, which will give the product required.* EXAMPLES. 1. Required the product... | |
 | Richard Frederick Clarke (the elder.) - 1833 - 158 pages
...|¡ of S to a simple Fraction. |X|Xfe=H Answer, ¿f. Example. Reduce § of 8 J to a simple Fraction. RULE. Multiply all the numerators together for a numerator — and all the denominators for a denominator. If any of the proposed quantities be whole or mixed numbers, first reduce them to improper Fractions,... | |
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To reduce a compound fraction to a simple one. RULE. — Multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator ; the fraction thus formed will be an equivalent, but often not in its lowest terms. 
