 | Uriah Parke - Arithmetic - 1849 - 414 pages
...ninths, or tenths, as the unit or entire thing is divided into 8, 9 or 10 parts. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. Or we may consider the numerator as expressing so many integers and the denominator as telling how... | |
 | Uriah Parke - Arithmetic - 1850 - 402 pages
...ninths, or tenths, as the unit or entire thing is divided into 8, 9 or 10 parts. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. Or we may consider the numerator as expressing so many integers and the denominator as telling how... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1852 - 344 pages
...FRACTIONS is the operation of changing the fractional unit without altering the value of the fraction. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator have no common factor. CASE I. 164. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 1. Reduce y7^ to its... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1856 - 450 pages
...FRACTIONS is the operation of changing the fractional unit without altering the value of the fraction. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator have no common factor. CASE I. 121. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 1. Reduce Tyj to its... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 348 pages
...their form without altering their value. CASE I. ART. 138. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. Art. 110, Def. 5. Thus, ij is in its lowest terms, while | J is not. 1. Reduce ?* to its lowest terms.... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1860 - 330 pages
...product over this given denominator. SECOND TRANSFORMATION. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 87. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator contain no common factors. It has been shown, that both terms of a fraction may be divided by the same... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1863 - 350 pages
...lower terms when it is reduced to an equivalent fraction having a smaller numerator and denominator. A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. I. Reduce j| to fifths. SOLCTIOW. — One equals }f and ^ equals OPEBATIOS. 8 fifteenths; hence, one... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1863 - 432 pages
...changing its form without altering its value. CASK I. 134. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. And since it does not alter the value of a fraction to suppress the same factor in both numerator and... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1864 - 444 pages
...changing its form without altering its value. CASE I. 124. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. And since it does not alter the value of a fraction to suppress the same factor in both numerator and... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...effect upon the fraction ? Why ? REDUCTION OP FRACTIONS TO LOWEST TERMS. 120. A Fraction is expressed in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 121. ILL. Ex. Reduce -fv to its lowest terms. OPERATION. 8 = 4X2; 10 r= 5 X 2. Dividing the 8 4 X $... | |
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To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A Fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 
