| Andrew Jackson Rickoff - Arithmetic - 1886 - 688 pages
...14-6. Rule. — 1. Reduce the fractions, if necessary, to fractions having' a common denominator. 2. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and write the remainder over the common denominator. 3. In the subtraction of mixed numbers, if the fraction... | |
| Edward Brooks - Algebra - 1888 - 344 pages
...divided by mn. Rule. — I. Reduce the fractions, when necessary, to their lowest common denominator. II. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and write the common denominator under the result. NOTI«. — 1. Keduce each fraction to ita lowest terme... | |
| Edward Brooks - Algebra - 1888 - 190 pages
...divided by mn. Rule. — I. Reduce the fractions, when necessary, to their least common denominator. II. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and write the common denominator under the result. NOTES. — 1. Eeduce each fraction to its lowest terms... | |
| Andrew Jackson Rickoff - 1888 - 464 pages
...denominator. Rule. — 1. Reduce the fractions, if necessary, to fractions naving a common denominator. 2. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and write the remainder over the common denominator. ORAL AND SLATE EXERCISES. Note.—The oral exercises... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1888 - 372 pages
...the required difference. RULE. I. When necessary, reduce the fractions to a common denominator. II. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, dnd place the difference over the common denominator. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 2. From £ take |. Ans.... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 388 pages
...fraction from another : Reduce the fractions to equivalent fractions having the least common denominator. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend. Write the result over the least common denominator. (2) Subtract 3^ from 4|£. 24 = 2s X 3, 15 = 3... | |
| John Homer French - Arithmetic - 1889 - 512 pages
...in the minuend 1 less. II. To subtract fractions : — 1. Reduce dissimilar to similar fractions. 2. Subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the...difference write the common denominator. See remarks « and 6 under Rules for Addition, Art. 229. PROOFS. — The »urn of the eubtrahend and remainder... | |
| Edward Sylvester Ellis - Arithmetic - 1889 - 196 pages
...Subtraction of Fractions. — 1. Change the fractions to equivalent fractions having a common denominator, subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and write the difference over the common denominator. 2. If there are mixed numbers and the numerator of... | |
| James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1889 - 408 pages
...numerators. = I twelfth = ^. jij, diff. of fractions. RULE. — Reduce the fractions to a common denominator, subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend, and place the difference over the denominator, m. Operation. 16f = Operation. Hi= 9* = EXERCISE XXVII.... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Arithmetic - 1889 - 676 pages
...SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS. Rule for subtracting fractions. Reduce the fractions to similar fractions and subtract the numerator of the subtrahend from the numerator of the minuend. Write the difference over the common denominator. NOTE. If the numbers are mixed numbers, subtract... | |
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