 | Shelton Palmer Sanford - Arithmetic - 1872 - 404 pages
...REDUCTION of fractions consists in changing their form without altering their value. CASE I. ART. 108. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when no number greater than 1 will divide its numerator and denominator without a remainder. Ex. 1. Reduce... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1872 - 350 pages
...operations may be performed on 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... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1873 - 396 pages
...of a fraction or to its dividing line, plus is always to be understood. Reduction of Fractions. 112. To reduce a Fraction to its Lowest Terms. — A fraction...its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator contain no common factor ; and since the value of a fraction is not changed if we divide both numerator... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1856 - 400 pages
...forms without altering their values. • CASE I. TO REDUCE A FRACTION TO ITS LOWEST TERMS. ART. 119. A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other, (Art. 88, Def. 5); as, jj , but not 4. KEVIEW. — 116. What is the effect of multiplying both terms... | |
 | Richard Rickard - 1873 - 364 pages
...AD will contain 8 such parts ; 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 its numerator and denominator are prime to each other — that is, when they have no common divisor.... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1874 - 444 pages
...to a simple one. This is the same operation as division of fractions. See Art. 224. 190. CASE I. — To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its terms have no common divisor. When they have a common divisor, it may be removed by dividing both... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1874 - 340 pages
...Reduction of a quantity is the 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... | |
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value. CASE I. 99. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other; that is, when they are the least whole numbers... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - 1876 - 358 pages
...effect upon the fraction ? Why ? REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS TO LOWEST TERMS. 12O. A Fraction is expressed in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 131. ILL. Ex. Reduce -fa to its lowest terms. OPERATION. 8 = 4 X 2 ; 10 = 5X2. Dividing th« numerator... | |
 | Milton Browning Goff - Arithmetic - 1876 - 462 pages
...with the smallest whole numbers the fractions Tinr, TT, T5T' TTo, aT1d -Jf. A fraction is said to be in its Lowest Terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other (169).FRACTIONS. EXAMPLE. — Reduce $f- to its lowest terms. FIR8T SOLUTION. SECOND SOLUTION. THIRD... | |
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To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A Fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 1. Reduce - to its lowest terms. 
