 | William James Milne - Algebra - 1906 - 444 pages
...one fifth of x be expressed ? Two thirds of Ь ? Three sevenths of у ? Eight elevenths of г ? 138. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 139. Since a fraction is one or more of the equal parts of anything, to express a fraction, two numbers,... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1906 - 590 pages
...23x1,000x60x800 W 5. (a) (6) (c) id) («) (f) Or) 32. 250 1. 48. 5. 105 42. ARITHMETIC. (PART 2.) FRACTIONS. 1. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 2. Two numbers are required to express a fraction, one called the numerator, and the other, the denominator.... | |
 | Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Arithmetic - 1906 - 250 pages
...FRACTIONS Definitions Two conceptions of the fraction were prevalent among the writers of that period : (1) A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. (2) A fraction is the indicated quotient of two integers. Among the examples of the former is the treatment... | |
 | Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...smallest flock that would furnish exact days' labor for each of them shearing alone ? FRACTIONS 77. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 78. A Fractional Ur.it is one of the equal parts of a unit, as, one-third, one-fourth, one-seventh.... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - Arithmetic - 1906 - 164 pages
...inch into ^ inches How many | inches are there in all ? THE FRACTION A unit is one, a whole thing. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. A common fraction is expressed by two numbers, one number written below the other, with a line between... | |
 | Lambert Lincoln Jackson - Arithmetic - 1906 - 246 pages
...FRACTIONS Definitions Two conceptions of the fraction were prevalent among the writers of that period : (1) A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. (2) A fraction is the indicated quotient of two integers. Among the examples of the former is the treatment... | |
 | John Williston Cook, Nebraska C. Cropsey - Arithmetic - 1906 - 296 pages
...fourth? Make other drawings showing halves, thirds, sixths and twelfths, and compare these fractions. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a whole. 253. $6; 6 books; 6 quarts:—Give the name, or the denomination, of each of these quantities.... | |
 | John William McClymonds, David Rhys Jones - Arithmetic - 1907 - 390 pages
...such parts" are expressed as | mi. A unit may be regarded as composed of 2 or more equal parts. 3. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit, as ^, |, etc. 4. In the fraction f, 4 is the denominator. It shows the number of equal parts into which... | |
 | Samuel Hamilton - Arithmetic - 1907 - 286 pages
...\ of the first circle ; f of the second circle, and | of the third circle. A unit is any one thing. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. 22. Write in figures one half ; one fourth. How many figures are needed to express a common fraction... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1907 - 364 pages
...denomination. Inches may be reduced to feet or feet to inches; pints to quarts or quarts to pints, etc. 36. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. Seven eighths is a fraction. Five twelfths is a fraction. 37. A fraction may be expressed by two numbers,... | |
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Which is the smaller, fifths or thirds? Why? DEFINITIONS. 98. A. fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit, or of anything regarded as a whole.* 
