 | Ingram Cobbin - 1830 - 150 pages
...divide J into 3 equal parts, \, J, £, and take 1 of them, \. This you can always do by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. Sum 12. — How much is 7 of \ ? j -. f» » numerators ^ denominators TV one twelfth. Sum 13.— How... | |
 | Peter Nicholson - Algebra - 1831 - 326 pages
...4?x— 6 1x— 12 From 5.r-| — take 2x-\ — • From !f±i take 1*. x+1 5 fl"-6s Multiplication of RULE. MULTIPLY the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.* * Note 1. If the numerator of one fraction, and the denominator of the other, can be divided by a common... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1831 - 210 pages
...GENERAL RULE. Reduce compound fractions to single ones, and mixed numbers to improper fractions; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. EXAMPLES. Result A. Result AResult 2»i. E: 1. Multiply £ by f 2. Multiply T'j by |. 3. Multiply f... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1831 - 348 pages
...FRACTIONS. RULE. Reduce compound fractions to simple ones, and mixt numbers to improper fractions ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. EXAMPLES. 1. Multiply 4J by £. »X1 4J= - =1%. the answer. 2X8 2. Multiply g- by f . Ans. TV 3. Multiply... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1831 - 198 pages
...GENERAL RULE. Reduce compound fractions to single ones, and mixed numbers to improper fractions; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. EXAMPLES. 1. Multiply i by f Result-/-,. 2. Multiply TV by f . Result ,',VULGAR FRACTIONS. 4. l=V:then... | |
 | Thomas Conkling (W.) - Arithmetic - 1831 - 302 pages
...improper - fraction, I reduced it to its 53 proper terms. 72 EXAMPLES. 2. Multiply f by f. Ans. if. Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator; and the denominators for a new denominator. 3. Multiply f off, by f of ^, Ans, ^ or ^ Reduce the multiplicand and multiplier, both to single tractions,... | |
 | Francis Walkingame - 1832 - 224 pages
..."D ULE. Prepare the given numbers (if they require it) by •*•*• the rules of Reduction ; then multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. EXAMPLES1. Multiply | by t Fa. 3X3=9 num. 4X5=20 den. SV *. Mulliply I by | Fucit J}. 3. Multiply 48... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...sold. Hence, To multiply a fraction by a fraction, or to change a compound fraction to a single one. RULE. — Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator. QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE (56). 2. A man owning £ of a farm, sold £... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - Arithmetic - 1833 - 296 pages
...is more easily done, if we invert the divisor £ , thus |. When the divisor is thus inverted we can multiply the numerators together for a new numerator...and the denominators for a new denominator and the process is the same. Thus let us divide f- by £. Inverting the divisor f the two fractions would stand... | |
 | William Smyth - Algebra - 1833 - 288 pages
...shall merely subjoin these rules, with some examples under each. MULTIPLICATION OF ALGEBRAIC FRACTIONS. Rule. — Multiply the numerators together for a new...numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. EXAMPLES. , .-,.. 5c, a262 . b2 1. Multiply— by ^. Ans.2. Multiply - by Ans. .. FJ cd— d2 * a-\-b-... | |
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Now .} of f- is a compound fraction, whose value is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. 
