 To subtract fractions reduce the fractions to forms having a common denominator, if they have not that form, and subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and place the remainder over the common denominator.  Arithmetic Simplified in Three Parts - Page 96by Catharine Esther Beecher - 1833 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 300 pages
...fraction, and if the two fractions have different denominators, reduce them to a common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the...and place the remainder over the common denominator. When the minuend is a mixed number, and the fraction in the subtrahend is greater than that in the... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1835 - 300 pages
...denominators, reduce them to a common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from thi numerator of the minuend, and place the remainder over the common denominator. When the minuend is a mixed number, and toe fraction in the subtrahend is greater than that in the... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1839 - 300 pages
...denominators, reduce them to a common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from tht numerator of the minuend, and place the remainder over the common denominator. When the minuend is a mixed number, and the fraction in the subtrahend is greater than that in the... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - 1840 - 302 pages
...fraction, and if the two fractions have different denominators, reduce them to a common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the...and place the remainder over the common denominator. When the minuend is a mixed number, and the fraction in the subtrahend is greater than that in the... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Algebra - 1842 - 370 pages
...subtract one fraction from another. • . RULE. Reduce the fractions to a common denominator, then subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and place the difference over the common denominator. EXAMPLES. , -n 3x+a , 2x— a 1. From — _ subtract . —... | |
 | W. H. CRANK - Arithmetic - 1843 - 340 pages
...place the subtrahend after the minuend ; then we reduce the fractions to a common denominator, taking the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and subfixing the common denominator. We then obtain the improper fraction JjO- which we turn into a mixed... | |
 | William Scott - Algebra - 1844 - 568 pages
...fractions which have not the same denominator, Rule. Having reduced the fractions to the same denominator, subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and divide the remainder by the common denominator. Examples of the subtraction of algebraic fractions... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1844 - 246 pages
...12| subtrahend. Therefore, to subtract fractions, Reduce both fractions to a common denominator, and subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend. If the numerator of the minuend is less than that of the subtrahend, increase it by the denominator,... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 258 pages
...12§ subtrahend. Therefore, to subtract fractions, Reduce both fractions to a common denominator, and subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend. If the numerator of the minuend is less than that of the subtrahend, increase it by the denominator,... | |
 | Algebra - 1847 - 386 pages
...subtract one fractional quantity from another. RULE. I. Reduce the fractions to a common denominator. 11. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and place the difference over the common denominator. EXAMPLES. * x — a 2a — 4x 1. Find the difference of the... | |
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