 | Lorenzo Dow Harvey - Arithmetic - 1908 - 318 pages
...writing them. Make and give a rule for reducing fractions to lower terms. 107. Reduction of fractions to lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when no number except 1 will divide both numerator and denominator. Reduce the following fractions to their lowest... | |
 | Charles William Morey - Arithmetic - 1910 - 360 pages
...fraction f have no common factor, the fraction JJJ has been changed to its simplest form, or, as we say, to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common factor. Change to lowest terms : s- I TSO if A it H «... | |
 | Charles William Morey - Arithmetic - 1911 - 274 pages
...fraction f have no common factor, the fraction jf[ has been changed to its simplest form, or, as we say, to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common factor. Change to lowest terms : 8- I T8о i& A il lî... | |
 | Eugene Herz, Mary G. Brants - Arithmetic - 1920 - 304 pages
...numerator (4), and \ of 4 = 2; therefore, When a fraction is in its simplest form, it is said to be reduced to its "lowest terms." A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and its denominator cannot be further divided by the same factor. FRACTIONS Exercise... | |
 | Maryanne Tipler, Rachel Bates - Mathematics - 2004 - 146 pages
...make this true 12 30 Number 24 Cancelling Fractions In this section we will look at ... • cancelling a fraction to its lowest terms A fraction is in its lowest terms or simplest form if the numerator and denominator have no common factors except 1. We simplify a fraction... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1848 - 310 pages
...f- into its. equal J, is called reducing the fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is said to be in its lowest terms when no number greater than 1...its numerator and denominator without a remainder. 1. Reduce -}f| to its lowest terms. OPERATION. vve find, by trial, that 4 will exactly ON xe measure... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 340 pages
...137. REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS Is changing their form without altering their value. CASE I. ART. 138. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when the numerator and denominator are.prime to each other. Art. 110, Def. 5. Thus, | is in its lowest terms,... | |
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To REDUCE A FRACTION TO ITS LOWEST TERMS. A fraction is in its lowest terms when no number greater than 1 will exactly divide both numerator and denominator. I. Reduce ^ to its lowest terms. 
