 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Algebra - 1879 - 376 pages
...KEDUCTION OF FRACTIONS is the process of changing their forms without altering their values. CASE I. 124. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, or simplest form, when its terms are prime to each other. 1. Eeduce „ . to its lowest terms. 9 bc... | |
 | George Ricks - 1881 - 288 pages
...A number which has three digits repeated in the same order is divisible by 7, 11, and 13. NOTE. — A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator have no factor in common. EXERCISES ON REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS. 1. Reduce ffo, yfy, ^^y, and ^^ to their... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 348 pages
...to twelfths. 26. £ to twentieths. 27. | to tenths. 28. £f to sevenths. 29. | to thirtieths. 146. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its terms have no common divisor. Reduce ^§ to its lowest terms. EXPLANATION. — Divide both terms... | |
 | A G. Blake - 1885 - 218 pages
...numerator and denominator are both divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered. A fraction is IN ITS LOWEST TERMS when the numerator and denominator are prime to one another. If any number will measure both the numerator and the denominator, the fraction can be... | |
 | James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 248 pages
...Reduction of a Fraction consists in changing its terms without altering its value. 176. C'ASE I. — To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in the lowest terms when no number greater than 1 will exactly divide its numerator and denominator. 1.... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury, Grenville C. Emery - Algebra - 1889 - 428 pages
...the preceding principles, and may be conveniently presented under the following cases. CASE I. 142. To reduce a Fraction to its Lowest Terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common factor. Since the cancellation of the same factors from... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1889 - 330 pages
...product over this given denominator. SECOND TRANSFORMATION To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 64. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator contain no common factors. It has been shown, that both terms of a fraction may be divided by the same... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Algebra - 1891 - 380 pages
...FRACTIONS. 154. To reduce a fraction is to change its form without altering its value. CASE I. 155. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction...its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator have no common factor. We have, therefore, the following rule ; 121 Resolve the numerator and denominator... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1891 - 306 pages
...Multiply the quantity by the given denominator, and write the product over this given denominator. 87. To reduce a Fraction to its Lowest Terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and the denominator contain no common factors. It has been shown that both terms of a fraction may be divided... | |
 | John Groesbeck - 1891 - 426 pages
...of such change ia to obtain the simplest or most convenient form for use. CASE I. 59. To Change or Reduce a Fraction to its Lowest Terms. — A fraction is in its lowest terms when no number greater than 1 will divide both the numerator and denominator without a remainder. Mule 1.... | |
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To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator have no common factor. 
