 To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.  A Grammar Shcool Arithmetic - Page 122by George Albert Wentworth - 1886 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Butler - 1814 - 540 pages
...lowest term». Ans. — . .> 172. To reduce a mixed number to its equivalent improper fraction. RULE Î. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator. II. Place this number over the denominator of the fraction, and it will be the answer required 4. 37.... | |
 | Charles Vyse - Arithmetic - 1815 - 340 pages
...will be the numerator to the assigned denominator. 3. If the whole number have a fraction annexed, multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new numerator, \vliich place over the denominator. EXAMPLES. (12) Reduce 12, 27, and 176, to... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Algebra - 1818 - 284 pages
...D2 % CASE in. To reduce a mixed quantity to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the integral part by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator, when it is affirmative, or subtract it when negative ; then the result, placed over the denominator,... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Arithmetic - 1818 - 332 pages
...When there is a fractional part in the quantity. RULE. Multiply the integer of the isiven quantity by the denominator of' the fraction, and to the product add the numerator, for a divisor; multiply the given price hy the denominator, and divide by the neiv divisor, the quotient... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1819 - 236 pages
...j'y »5 to its lowest terms. Ans. -JJs. II. To reduce a ,nixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new numerator, and place it ove: the denominator. 1. Reduce 127T\ to an improper fraction. 127... | |
 | James Maginness - Arithmetic - 1821 - 378 pages
...will be the numerator to the given denominator. , . 4. If a fraction be annexed to the whole number, multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator for a new one, which place over the denominator of the given fraction, and the thing is done. , EXAMPLES.... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Arithmetic - 1822 - 354 pages
...under it for a denominator. Thus, :'! — •;. Prop. 4. To reduce a mixed number to it» equivalent improper fraction. Multiply the whole number by the...the fraction, and to the product add the numerator ; tiiis sum, written above the denominator, will form the frac,tion required. Prop, 5. To reduce an... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...|, CASE II. To Redufe a Mixed Number to its Equivalent Improper Fraction, * MULTIPLY the integer or whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator ; then set that sum above the denominator for the fraction required, EXAMPLES. 1. Reduce 23f to a fraction,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...above. To reduce a mixed number to its equivalent improper fraction. Rule. — Multiply the integer by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator. The sum is the numerator of the improper fraction sought, and is placed above the given denominator.... | |
 | Leonard Pierce - Arithmetic - 1823 - 170 pages
...fractions whose numerators exceed the denominator ; and im* ^er fractions to mixed or whole numbers. To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction....whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and add the numerator to the product ; then that sum written above the denominator will form the fraction... | |
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