 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...terms of the fraction by their greatest common measure, and the quotient will be the fraction required. •Dividing; both terms of a fraction by the same number does not at all alter its value. If the greatest common measure of a fraction be J, the fraction is already... | |
 | George Willson - Arithmetic - 1836 - 202 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. IT has already been shown, that multiplying or dividing, both the terms of a fraction, by the same number, does not change its value. But multiplying or dividing one of the terms, the other remaining the same, changes the value of a... | |
 | George Willson - Arithmetic - 1838 - 194 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. IT lias already been shown, that multiplying or dividing, both the terms of a fraction, by the same. number, does not change its value. But multiplying or dividing one of the terms, the other remaining the same, changes the value of a... | |
 | John Husband (math. master, Berwick.) - 1841 - 126 pages
...is 24. NOTE 1. — Any integer may be considered a fraction whose denominator is 1 ; thus, <,-';. 2. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number, does not change its value. REDUCTION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. I. To reduce a mixed number to an equivalent improper fraction. RULE... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Uriah Parke - Arithmetic - 1849 - 414 pages
...case have one half. From this proposition the following results as a matter of course^ PROPOSITION 25. or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value. If the terms of | be multiplied by 2, they become T8Z and if divided by 2 they become... | |
 | Uriah Parke - Arithmetic - 1850 - 402 pages
...case have one half. From this proposition the following results as a matter of course. PROPOSITION 25. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value. If the terms of | be multiplied by 2, they become f% and if divided by 2 they become... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Hunter - Arithmetic - 1852 - 184 pages
...measure of 1173 and 1518. The principal steps of the investigation may be marked as follows : — * Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number is, in effect, multiplying or dividing the fraction by unity. Thus JX % = f J ; but T, = 1 ; therefore... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - Arithmetic - 1853 - 330 pages
...simplest terms. 17. Reduce ^i/j of a dollar to its lowest terms. 18. What is the simplest form of REMARK. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number, only alters its form not its value. (See Division, sec. 175.) 19. Reduce -f^-g to its simplest form.... | |
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Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 
