 | Charles Scott Venable - Arithmetic - 1888 - 242 pages
...Three-fourths. 6. Two-fifths. 8. Pour-fifths. 149. Copy, and explain : * f Iff till ff * * f fffff 150. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit or of a number. 151. A fractional unit is one of the equal parts into which a unit is divided. Thus :... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Rickoff - 1888 - 464 pages
...greater, "/ u or "/« ? 4/? or ,/, ? 73 /i« or "/,»? %or 3/ 8 ? V« or "/»? Why? Definitions. 126. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit or whole. 127. The unit of the traction is the unit which is divided. One of the equal parts is a fractional... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1888 - 372 pages
...or more such parts is a fractional part of the whole number, and is called a fraction. Hence, 113. A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. Define a fraction. DEFINITIONS, NOTATION, NUMERATION. 87 114. To write a fraction, two integers are... | |
 | George Soulé - Arithmetic - 1888 - 568 pages
...of two or more Fractions? 284. General Direction for the Operation. ECIMAL FRACTIONS, 285. A Decimal Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit, which is divided into tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc., according to the decimal scale ; hence... | |
 | Levi Seeley - Arithmetic - 1888 - 204 pages
...numbers which indicate parts of the unity? What is ^? f? J? (A fraction.) What then is a fraction ? (A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unity.) How many parts have we in J? (We have i part.) In f ? (We have 3 parts.) Into what is the unity... | |
 | Levi Seeley - Arithmetic - 1888 - 192 pages
...numbers which indicate parts of the unity? What is i ? J? \t (A fraction.) What then is a fraction ? (A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unity.) How many parts have we in i? (We have 1 part.) In f ? (We have 3 parts.) Into what is the unity... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - Arithmetic - 1889 - 248 pages
...between the other two factors is 16. What are the numbers ? II. COMMON FRACTIONS. HINTS AND DEFINITIONS. A fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. A fraction is usually expressed by two numbers, one written above the other, with a line between. The... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Arithmetic - 1889 - 196 pages
...fractional units is equaled by the increase in their size. Thus, *-si = *;ft = *5HK$ = f. ART. 105. — A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. It is an expression of division. ART. 106. — A fraction is expressed by two numbers, •written one... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Arithmetic - 1889 - 370 pages
...decrease in the number of fractional units is equaled by the increase in their size. Thus, ART. 121. — A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. It is an expression of division. ART. 122. — A fraction is expressed by two numbers, written one... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1890 - 178 pages
...three eighths. 23. Which of the above fractions are proper fractions? Which are improper fractions? A Fraction is one or more of the equal parts of a unit. The numerator and denominator are called the terms of a fraction. REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS. INTEGERS... | |
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