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...Jf x 15. 5. & x 7. 10. Jf x 2. 15. 7 X Jf . 20. Jf x 20. 264. To multiply a fraction by a fraction, Find the product of the numerators for the numerator...the denominators for the denominator of the product. Mixed numbers must first be reduced to improper fractions. Any factor common to a numerator and denominator...

...will be twice -fa, that is, -^ of the whole. Therefore, 264. To multiply a fraction by a fraction, Find the product of the numerators for the numerator...the denominators for the denominator of the product. Mixed numbers must first be reduced to improper fractions. Any factor common to a numerator and denominator...

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...of the product. 168. Now, - X - means -, of ~ do do Therefore, to find the product of two fractions, find the product of the numerators for the numerator...and of the denominators for the denominator of The same rule will hold when more than two fractions are taken. If a factor exist in both a numerator and...

...to find the product of two fractions, Find the product of the numerators for the numerator of i he product, and of the denominators for the denominator...multiplication is evidently equivalent to cancelling it after the multiplication ; and this may be done by §163. DIVISION OF FRACTIONS. 177. Multiplying by...

...Jf. 17. Jf X 10. 18. Jf X 12. 19. Jf X 15. 20. Jf X 20. 284. To multiply a fraction by a fraction, Find the product of the numerators for the numerator...product, and of the denominators for the denominator (/ ilie product. Mixed numbers must first be reduced to improper fractions. Any factor common to a...

...the denominator. If a factor is common to a numerator and a denominator, it should be cancelled, as the cancelling of a common factor before the' multiplication is evidently equivalent to cancelling it after the multiplication. (1) Find the product of fH£ X £i£ X 2a?b 6 c2d 5 aVc =2X6X5 aWc2^ = 68...