 | Webster Wells - Algebra - 1906 - 550 pages
...value. REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS 139. Reduction of a Fraction to its Lowest Terms. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other (§ 128). (We consider in the present chapter those cases only in which the numerator and denominator... | |
 | Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...FRACTIONS 92. Reduction of Fractions consists in changing their form without altering their value. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common divisor. As fractions may be reduced to lower terms by division, they may also be reduced... | |
 | Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...FRACTIONS 92. Reduction of Fractions consists in changing their form without altering their value. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common divisor. As fractions may be reduced to lower terms by division, they may also be reduced... | |
 | Webster Wells - Algebra - 1908 - 262 pages
...value. REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS 1 18. Reduction of a Fraction to Lower Terms. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other (§ 106). (We consider in this text those cases only in which the numerator aad denominator can be... | |
 | Webster Wells - Algebra - 1908 - 456 pages
...value. REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS 118. Reduction of a Fraction to Lower Terms. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other (§ 106). (We consider in this text those cases only in which the numerator and denominator can be... | |
 | Mabel Bonsall, George E. Mercer - Arithmetic - 1906 - 140 pages
...or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator cannot be divided by the same number. 93. Written. Change : 1. \ to tenths. 2. f to sixths. 3. to fourths.... | |
 | George E. Mercer - Arithmetic - 1909 - 312 pages
...Oral. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. To reduce a fraction to lowest terms, cancel all the factors common to both of its terms. Reduce to... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Algebra - 1909 - 332 pages
...REDUCTION 112. Reducing a fraction is changing its terras or form without altering its value. 113. Reducing fractions to their lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator have no common factor. Canceling a common factor in both terms is equivalent... | |
 | Fletcher Durell, Edward Rutledge Robbins - Algebra - 1909 - 296 pages
...must be changed. TRANSFORMATIONS OP FRACTIONS. I. To REDUCE A FRACTION то ITS LOWEST TERMS. 137. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common factor. 138. Direct Reduction. When the terms of the fraction are monomials, or polynomials... | |
 | George E. Mercer, Mabel Bonsall - Arithmetic - 1909 - 168 pages
...ШЖ*«^ЯЯ^«К«Ж1 1 R lll 4 • _. ¡ - 3 49 REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS TO HIGHER OR LOWER TERMS 53. Oral. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common factor. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms, divide the numerator and denominator... | |
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To reduce fractions to their lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other; that is, when both terms have no common divisor. 1. Reduce the fraction -|| to its lowest terms. 
