 | Warren H. Sadler, William Russell Will - Business mathematics - 1890 - 316 pages
...number divides the fraction by the same number. 3. To multiply or divide both numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction (Prin. 3, 35). REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS. 88. Reduction of Fractions means to change their form without... | |
 | Henry Holmes Belfield - Arithmetic - 1891 - 362 pages
...denominator multiplies, the fraction by that number. III. The multiplication or division of both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. ADDITION. 264. 1. Find the sum of f and f. SOLUTION. The sum of two ninths and 5 ninth* is 7 ninths.... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 440 pages
...ISths. 19. 2 ^ to 21sts. 26. I to 3Oths. 103 133. PRINCIPLE. — Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. WRITTEN EXERCISES. 134. 1. Change ^ to 48ths. EXPLANATION. - Since there are 48 forty-eig-hths in 48... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 480 pages
...denominator are expressed by larger numbers. 133. PRINCIPLE. — Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value oj (he fraction. WRITTEN EXERCISES. 134. l. Change ^ to 48ths. EXPLANATION. — Since there are 48... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1893 - 228 pages
...by 2, and hence •lid not change its value. Hence we have the following PRINCIPLE V.—Multiplying both numerator and denominator of a fraction by the...number does not change the value of the fraction. 2 Multiply both numerator and denominator of f by 3; | by 6; * by 5; f by 3; JA by 9; {3 by 6. 1. Divide... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1893 - 228 pages
...denominator. 1. Reduce £ and ^ to fractions having a common denominator. Since multiplying both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number , , does not change its value (Art. 105), we multiply both terms of 7 7*5 35 J the fraction $ by 7, the denominator of... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1893 - 234 pages
...having a common denominator. 7 7 X 5 35^ ' the fraction £ by 7, the denomiSince multiplying both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number *• does not change its value (Art. 105), we multiply both terms of nator of the second fraction, and have f = \\ ; and... | |
 | James Morford Taylor - Algebra - 1893 - 362 pages
...the quotient and —a2 the remainder. 83. Multiplying or dividing both the dividend and the divisor by the same number does not change the value of the fraction or quotient. For, since m ч- m = 1, by § 75 we have aam am am a x~ x ' m— xm EXAMPLE. Simplify... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - Arithmetic - 1914 - 396 pages
...That 1S, g— g = 7 = 2 xo Show by this line that equals 2 x $. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 2 2x2 4 I > i . l . 1 1 ) 4-=- 2 2 4 2 1 • = - > and both - and - equal - • WRITTEN EXERCISE Find... | |
 | 1914 - 536 pages
...small parts give us just as much shot as 15 of the larger parts. In the same way as multiplying the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change its value, so the dividing of the numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the... | |
| |
Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 
