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" Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. "
Complete Arithmetic: pt. 1- - Page 48
by George E. Mercer, Mabel Bonsall - 1909
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The Youth's Assistant in Theoretick and Practical Arithmetic

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...
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A Practical and Theoretical System of Arithmetic...: Also, a Treatise on ...

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...
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A Practical and Theoretical System of Arithmetic: Containing a New System of ...

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...
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A system of arithmetic

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...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Arithmetic and the Adaptation of that Science ...

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...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Arithmetic and the Adaptation of that Science ...

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...
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Text-book of Arithmetic: For the Use of Teachers : Including All the ...

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...
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The Theoretical and Practical Systematic Arithmetic; Or, Arithmetic Arranged ...

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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An Introduction to Arithmetic: Containing the Most Useful Rules in Common ...

James Gray - Arithmetic - 1854 - 120 pages
...fraction, as 4^. NOTE 1. Any whole number may be expressed like a fraction, by writing 1 under it. 2. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. REDUCTION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. PROB. l. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. Find a common...
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A Treatise on Arithmetic, Combining Analysis and Synthesis: Adapted to the ...

James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1857 - 376 pages
...both nuT mcrator and denominator of this complex fraction, -, by 7, we 7 obtain J ; but multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value (60, Cor.), .-.- = £; ie the reciprocal of f is £ ; and, generally, the reciprocal of any fraction...
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