 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1868 - 468 pages
...fraction is the process of changing its terms, or its form, without altering its value. CASE I. 177. To reduce fractions to their lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denomi nator are prime to each other ; that is, when both terms have nc common divisor. 1. Keduce the... | |
 | John Homer French - Arithmetic - 1869 - 350 pages
...and integers, decimals, and compound numbers. SECTION II. CA.SE I. Fractions to Lowest Terms. 321, A fraction is in its Lowest Terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other ; as f } f, f , 23 30' When the terms of a fraction are not prime to each other, they have some common... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.) - 1872 - 204 pages
...Io, 15, 30, 45, 1oo. CASE 4. — To reduce a fraction to us lowest terms. A fraction is said to be in its LOWEST TERMS when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. RULE.— Divide both numerator and denominator successively by their common factors, or at once by... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1872 - 350 pages
...fractions ?— 141. What is meant bjr inducing a fraction ? 142. CASE I. — To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common divisor greater than 1. EXAMPLE. — Reduce 4f to its lowest terms. Dividing both numerator... | |
 | Richard Rickard - 1873 - 364 pages
...; that is, AD is ^. •-• f - A - KHConversely T\ = -*- = j|-±-i 79. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when...denominator are prime to each other — that is, when they have no common divisor. Example 1. — Reduce if J to its lowest termSi as. _ )ns -I- Is _ _?.... | |
 | Braithwaite Arnett - Mathematics - 1873 - 120 pages
...into their prime factors, and multiply together the highest powers of all the factors that occur. DBF. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. In simplifying expressions, when two quantities connected by the sign of multiplication are combined... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1874 - 340 pages
...operation of changing its form without altering its value. CASE r. 109. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each otber. 14ab'c 1. Reduce n¡ to its lowest terms. Apply the general law. The principles that govern... | |
 | Thomas W. Piper - 1874 - 352 pages
...T 97 64. To REDUCE A FRACTION TO ITS LOWEST TERMS. Def. 1. — A fraction is said to be reduced to its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. When these are not prime to each other, they are each exactly divisible by a number greater than unity;... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 540 pages
...and denominator are expressed in smaller numbers. Thus, -&=£, or f. 206. A fraction is reduced to its Lowest Terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. Thus,A=f; if=f 207. Fractions are changed to higher terms by Multiplication, and to lower terms by... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - 1874 - 320 pages
...can |$ be expressed ? 9. Express £f in its lowest terms ; £i ; ff ; f#. A fraction is reduced to its Lowest Terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 174. PRINCIPLE. — Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value... | |
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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. 
