 If the numerator and denominator of each fraction is multiplied (or divided) by the same number, the value of the fraction will not change.  Durell's Arithmetic - Page 95by Fletcher Durell, Elizabeth Hall - 1911Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Arithmetic - 1854 - 232 pages
...this reduction can be made by dividing both terms by their greatest common measure. The terms being divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not changed (Art. 70. c.) ; and the terms are rendered prime to each other. (Art. 62.) A fraction, the terms of... | |
 | J L. Ellenberger - 1854 - 338 pages
...same number ; /i . ,io for instance, — - — —-. Therefore, if the terms of a fraction 84-2 4 be multiplied or divided by the same number, the value of the fraction will be unaltered. 103. EXERCISES. 1 . Multiplication of the terms of a fraction by the same number.... | |
 | Barnard Smith - Arithmetic - 1854 - 368 pages
...the smaller number. II. 1. If the numerator and denominator of a fraction be both multiplied or both divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered : prove this by means of an example. 2. What number subtracted from 41 J leaves 19 J ? and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...therefore multiply the denominator by 0, and obtain as the result ^J ; but if each of these numbers he divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered. Ыепсе we divide both by 3, and obtain £ as an answer. But we want J of £1, or 20s.,... | |
 | John Hind - 1856 - 346 pages
...simple fractions. TRANSFORMATION OF FRACTIONS. 76. If the numerator and denominator of a fraction be multiplied or divided by the same number, the value of the fraction will not be altered. For, if the fraction f be multiplied by 5, the product is ^: and again if this... | |
 | Archibald Montgomerie - Algebra - 1857 - 116 pages
...PUINCIPLES. 26. If the numerator and denominator of a fraction bo both multiplied by the same number, or both divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not changed. 27. A fraction is multiplied by any quantity, cither by multiplying the numerator or dividing the denominator... | |
 | Barnard Smith - 1857 - 740 pages
...lowest terms = JfJ. Reason for the above process. If the numerator and denominator of a fraction be divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered (Art. 66) ; and the greatest number which will divide the numerator and denominator is their... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1857 - 548 pages
...fraction, decimal fraction, mixed number, and complex fraction. Prove that if the terms of a fraction be multiplied or divided by the same number, the value of the fraction ia not altered. 3. What is the meaning of a decimal system of coinage, and show by means of an example... | |
 | Claudius Crozet - Arithmetic - 1857 - 192 pages
...are exactly equal in value to the original ones ; because : If both terms of a fraction are either multiplied or divided by the same number, the value of the fraction remains the same ; its form alone is changed. (LXIII.) * I have purposely used here the word denomination... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Algebra - 1858 - 530 pages
...(Arts. 133 and 134). Thus т = т- ' And so also if the numerator and denominator of a b be fraction be divided by the same number the value of the fraction is not altered. 136. Hence, an Algebraical fraction may be reduced to another of equal value by dividing both... | |
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