 | Caton's national business college, Buffalo, N.Y. - 1889 - 330 pages
...number divides the fraction by the same number. 3. To multiply or divide both numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction (Prin. 3, 35). REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS. 88. Reduction of Fractions means to change their form without... | |
 | Charles Austin Hobbs - Arithmetic - 1889 - 362 pages
...keep the fracTZ~ TS TT61 tion of the same value, because multiplying both numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. A similar process is applied to the other two fractions. To reduce fractions to equivalent fractions... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler, William Russell Will - Business mathematics - 1890 - 316 pages
...number divides the fraction by the same number. 3. To multiply or divide both numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction (Prin. 3, 35). REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS. 88. Reduction of Fractions means to change their form without... | |
 | Henry Holmes Belfield - Arithmetic - 1891 - 362 pages
...denominator multiplies, the fraction by that number. III. The multiplication or division of both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. ADDITION. 264. 1. Find the sum of f and f. SOLUTION. The sum of two ninths and 5 ninth* is 7 ninths.... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 440 pages
...ISths. 19. 2 ^ to 21sts. 26. I to 3Oths. 103 133. PRINCIPLE. — Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. WRITTEN EXERCISES. 134. 1. Change ^ to 48ths. EXPLANATION. - Since there are 48 forty-eig-hths in 48... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 480 pages
...denominator are expressed by larger numbers. 133. PRINCIPLE. — Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value oj (he fraction. WRITTEN EXERCISES. 134. l. Change ^ to 48ths. EXPLANATION. — Since there are 48... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1893 - 228 pages
...by 2, and hence •lid not change its value. Hence we have the following PRINCIPLE V.—Multiplying both numerator and denominator of a fraction by the...number does not change the value of the fraction. 2 Multiply both numerator and denominator of f by 3; | by 6; * by 5; f by 3; JA by 9; {3 by 6. 1. Divide... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1893 - 228 pages
...denominator. 1. Reduce £ and ^ to fractions having a common denominator. Since multiplying both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number , , does not change its value (Art. 105), we multiply both terms of 7 7*5 35 J the fraction $ by 7, the denominator of... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1914 - 524 pages
...Since a ratio may be written in the form of a fraction, and since multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction, Multiplying or dividing both terms of a ratio by the same number does not change its value. Thus, 4... | |
 | Henry Charles Wolff - Mathematics - 1914 - 332 pages
...+ 3.c2 +3^ + 1. 6. z4 - x3ij - xi/3 + y4. 3. ax2 - 2axy + ay2 + 6x2 - 2/jj-i/ + bif. 12. Fractions. Multiplying or dividing both numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number, excepting zero, does not change the value of the fraction. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms,... | |
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Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 
