 | John Purdue Bidlake - Arithmetic - 1866 - 232 pages
...share equally f J of a sovereign, What is each boy's share ? 4. — To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms...numerator and denominator are prime to each other. EULE. — Divide both numerator and denominator successively by their common factors, or at once by... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1866 - 328 pages
...form without altering its value. CASE I. 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 other. Uab2c I. Reduce „i ii.¿¡ to its lowest terms. OPERATION. ANALYSIS. If we divide Loth numerator... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1867 - 148 pages
...is not changed "by dividing or multiplying both numerator and denominator by the same number. 118, A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are as small as they can be made without changing the value of the fraction. \ is in its lowest terms ;... | |
 | John Homer French - Arithmetic - 1869 - 350 pages
...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
...11, 13, 15. ) ,, ,, thirtieths 6, 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...numerator and denominator are prime to each other. RULE.— Divide both numerator and denominator successively by their common factors, or at once by... | |
 | Richard Rickard - 1873 - 374 pages
...- Tï - ПГ*' Conversely T\ = f = A±A 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. Example 1. — Reduce ¿fj to its lowest terms. io »... | |
 | Braithwaite Arnett - Mathematics - 1873 - 120 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1874 - 340 pages
...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... | |
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To Reduce a Fraction to its Lowest Terms. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other (§ 111). 
