 Case IV To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. — Divide the numerator and denominator by any number that will measure them ; that is, that will divide them without a remainder. Do the same with the quotients as long as any number can be found...  First Book of Arithmetic for the Use of Schools - Page 85by Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - 1842Full view - About this book
 | William M. Finlay - Accounting - 1803 - 272 pages
...Reduce -J to its lowest terms ? Am. H ............... 9 ............... « ............... A Otherwise, Divide the numerator and denominator by any number that will measure them ; divide their respective quotients in like manner, till the numbers prime to each other. EXAMPLE.... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1833 - 284 pages
...367T£¥, to their equivalent improper fractions. Am. CASE III $ 127. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. Divide the numerator and denominator by any number that will divide them loth without a remainder, and then divide the quotients arising in the same way until there... | |
 | John Martin (of Kincardine.) - 1843 - 120 pages
...Ans. 70& = *. 4. Reduce af|-3 to a whole or mixed number. Ans. = tV To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms, — RULE — Divide the numerator and denominator by any number that will do so without leaving a remainder to either. Ex. 1. Reduce ^J to its lowest terms,— Ans. 24 2. Reduce... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1850 - 160 pages
...... H ... W - 24 ... -ft ... $f ... 32 ... H ... H - 27f Case IV To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. — Divide the numerator and denominator...fractions (2) (2) (3) (2) (2) and the quotients by the J^=V%=|g=M=A=J Ans. figures placed above them. Or, If a number be wished for that may bring the fraction... | |
 | Commissioners of National Education in Ireland - Arithmetic - 1850 - 162 pages
...compound fractions to their equivalent simple ones : — Case IV — To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE — Divide the numerator and denominator...as any number can be found to divide them. Reduce J|$ to its lowest terms. Divide the fractions (2) (2) (3) (2) (2) and the quotients by the ^§=-i%=|^=:i|=:^=|... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1860 - 152 pages
...fraction — as Щ • REDUCTI0N 0F VUL0AR FRACTI0NS. I. To REDUCE A FRACTION (AS iff) Tо ITS LOWEST TERMS. . .¡¡ RULE. — Divide the numerator and denominator by any number that will divide both without a remainder, thus making an equivalent fraction in lower terms. Then divide this... | |
 | James Haddon - Arithmetic - 1862 - 358 pages
...the following compound fractions to their equivalent simple ones. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. Divide the numerator and denominator...same with the quotients as long as any number can he found to divide them; Reduce -%*% to its lowest terms. Divide the fractions and the quotients by... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1865 - 184 pages
...19J 87. ü ... и ... VV - 24 - ... TV ... ff ... 32 Case IV. — To reduce a fraction ta its lowest terms. RULE. — Divide the numerator and denominator...as any number can be found to divide them. Reduce ¿$$ to its lowest terms. Divide the fractions and (2) (2) (3) (2) (2) the quotients by the figures... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1882 - 190 pages
...reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. — Divide the numerator and denominator by any nun> ber that will measure them ; that is, that will divide...remainder. Do the same with the quotients as long aa any number can be found to divide them. Reduce ^fj. to its lowest terms. Divide the fractions and... | |
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