 | George Washington Hull - Arithmetic - 1894 - 204 pages
...terms of a fraction without changing its value ? 49. Principle. — Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 7. How many halves in T\ ? T\? 8. How many thirds in f? T%? 9. How many fifths in /T? if? |f? 10. How... | |
 | Arthur Treat Gorton, Leslie O. Lynch, Rupert H. Murray - Arithmetic - 1916 - 248 pages
...to 12ths, to 15ths. 4. Change -J- to 8ths, to 12ths, to 16ths, to 24ths. PRINCIPLE: Multiplying both numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same...number does not change the value of the fraction. 5. Change f to 6ths. £=£ of 6 sixths=$. f = 2 times £ = 2 times 2 sixths =|-. 6. Change f to 12ths.... | |
 | George William Myers, George Edward Atwood - Algebra - 1916 - 362 pages
...division axioms, §15, the value of the fraction is not changed. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. Exercise 102 1. Change fo an equivalent fraction whose numerator , , a — x is a — x . 2. Change... | |
 | William Aloysius Boylan, Floyd R. Smith - Arithmetic - 1916 - 150 pages
...denominator by 2, a factor common to both. We may say that we "cancel the 2's." _^ ^ Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common factor. , 12. Reduce... | |
 | Harry Anson Finney, Joseph Clifton Brown - Business mathematics - 1916 - 316 pages
...terms of the fraction by 12, and obtain the equivalent fraction f J. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 44. Reducing Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers. An improper fraction may be reduced to a mixed number.... | |
 | Charles Gerard White, Pitt Payson Colgrove - Arithmetic - 1916 - 368 pages
...a fraction without changing the value of the fraction. 67. Principle: Multiplying or dividing both numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. 68. Change: — 1. £to 8ths 5. f to 6ths 9. f to 20ths 2. | to 15ths 6. | to 24ths 10.... | |
 | William Aloysius Boylan, Floyd R. Smith - Arithmetic - 1916 - 172 pages
...the numerator and the denominator by the same number. Multiplying the numerator and the denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 7. Change to eighths : \ \ fff £ 8. Change to tenths : 5 itfff 9. Change to a whole or a mixed number... | |
 | William Henry Dooley - Arithmetic - 1917 - 388 pages
...denominator are prime to each other. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. Dividing the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. Tlie process of dividing the numerator and denominator of a fraction by a number common to both may... | |
 | Charles Ernest Chadsey, James Hamblin Smith - Arithmetic - 1917 - 298 pages
...the value of the fraction has not been changed. From these examples we see that : Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. Exercise 6. Changing to Lowest Terms We have seen in the preceding exercise that we may divide both... | |
 | United States - 1918 - 840 pages
...4-n2_j^.J: _4_ 12 ~ 12' 12X2 ~ 24 12' 12 12'12-~2 6' To multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction ; multiplying raises it to higher terms, and dividing reduces it to lower terms. To reduce a fraction... | |
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Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 
