...numbers composing the dividend above a horizontal line, and the numbers composing the divisor below it. II. Cancel all the factors common to both dividend...the divisor, and the result will be the quotient. 1. Relecting a factor from any number is dividing the number by thai factor. 2. When a factor is canceled,...

...54 -^ 4, or 13f. RULE. — Reject from the dividend and divisor all factors common to both, and then divide the product of the remaining factors of the...the product of the remaining factors of the divisor. When all the factors of both dividend and divisor are canceled the quotient is 1, for the dividend...

...a line separating them. II. Cancel from the dividend and divisor all factors common to both ; then divide the product of the remaining factors of the...the product of the remaining factors of the divisor. This principle can be put to frequent and valuable use in a great variety of business computations....

...we have 7 divided by 2, or SJ RULE. — Cancel the factors common to the dividend and divisor ; then divide the product of the remaining factors of the dividend by the product of the remaining /acton of ttie divisor. NOTE. — VV hen a factor is cancelled, the unit , 1 , takes its place, but...

...such cases. Rale for cancellation. Remove frem the dividend and divisor all factors common to them ; divide the product of the remaining factors of the dividend by the product of tho remaining factors ®f the divisor. COMMON FBACTIONS. Principle 1. Multiplying both terms of a fraction...

...a line separating them. II. Cancel from the dividend and divisor all factors common to both ; then divide the product of the remaining factors of the...dividend by the product of the remaining factors of tlie divisor. EXAMPLES FOlt PRACTICE. 158. 1. Determine by cancellation the quotient of5x9x2x!3x40x6...

...divided by 2, or 3£. Rule. — I. Cancel the common factors from the dividend and the divisor. II. Then divide the product of the remaining factors of the...the product of the remaining factors of the divisor. 1. The unit 1 takes the place of a cancelled factor, but need not be written, except in the dividend...

...we have the following method : I. Cancel the common factors from the dividend and divisor. II. Then divide the product of the remaining factors of the...the product of the remaining factors of the divisor. NOTE. — When a factor is cancelled, the unit, 1, takes its place, but need not be written, except...

...the divisor on the other. II. Cancel all the factors common to both dividend and divisor, and tlien divide the product of the remaining factors of the...the product of the remaining factors of the divisor. 4. Divide the product of 21 x 8 x 60 x 8 x 6 by 7 x 12 x 3 x8x3. 5. The product of the numbers 16,...

...cancellation. Remove from the dividend and divisor all factors common to them ; divide the proiluct of the remaining factors of the dividend by the product of the remaining factors of the divisor. COMMON FRACTIONS. Principle 1. Multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter...