 | Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1826 - 214 pages
...iu order to prepare them for the operations of Addition, Subtraction, &c. CASE I. To abbreviate or reduce fractions to their lowest terms.* * A fraction is in its lowest terms, when represented by the least numbers possible: thus J^ when reduced to its lowest terms is — J. 152.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...by their greatest common divisor, and the result will be the fraction in its lowest terms. NOTE. — A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. (Art. 1 18.) EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2. Reduce -fr to its lowest terms. 3. Reduce -£$ to its lowest... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...by their greatest common divisor, and the result will be the fraction in its lowest terms. NOTE. — A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. (Art. 118.) EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2. Reduce ^ to its lowest terms. Ans. ^. 3. Eeduce ^F to its lowest... | |
 | Barnard Smith - Arithmetic - 1854 - 368 pages
...9. (9) ^ of i of ЭД of | of ,% of 2 of jfc, (10) £ Qf | of f of 70g-- of & of 1^ of 147. 72. DEF. A Fraction is in its LOWEST TERMS, when its numerator and denominator are PRIME to each other. Note. When the numerator and denominator of a fraction are not prime to each other, they have (Art.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 pages
...by their greatest common divisor, and the result will be the fraction in its lowest terms. NOTE. — A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. (Art. 118.) EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2. Reduce 5^ to its lowest terms. Ans. £. 3. Reduce •/$ to its... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 452 pages
...of fractions is the process of changing their form of expression without altering their value. 219. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other (Art. 166). 220. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. Ex. 1. Reduce jf to its lowest terms. Ans.... | |
 | Barnard Smith - 1857 - 740 pages
...| of | of 9. (9) /s-ofjof^off of,%of2of£, (10) f of f of f of 70 J of ^ of 1 jfr of 147. 72. DBF. A FRACTION is in its LOWEST TERMS, when its numerator and denominator are PRIME to each other. Note. When the numerator and denominator of a fraction are not prime to each other, they have (Art.... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 456 pages
...of fractions is the process of changing their form of expression without altering their value. 219. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other (Art. 1GG). 220. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. Ex. 1. Reduce ! to its lowest terms. Ans.... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - 1858 - 288 pages
...are taken or considered. (h.) The Numerator and Denominator are called the TERMS of the fraction. (L) A fraction is in its LOWEST TERMS when its numerator and denominator are the smallest entire numbers which will express its value. (j.) A MIXED NUMBER is a whole number and... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1859 - 348 pages
...change in the DENOMINATOR produces an OPPOSITE change in the value of the fraction. REDUCTION. CASE I. 126. To reduce fractions to their lowest terms. A...lowest terms. FIRST OPERATION. ANALYSIS. Dividing both 48 — 24 — 12 — 4 Jne terms of a fraction bv the same *' — *a — if — T> -*1"*' , , . ' ,... | |
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To reduce fractions to their lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other ; that is, when both terms have no common divisor. 1. Reduce the fraction -f§ to its lowest terms. 
