 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. 1. Reduce - to its lowest terms.  New University Algebra - Page 66by Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1875 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 364 pages
...effect upon the fraction ? Why ? REDUCTION OP FRACTIONS TO LOWEST TERMS. 12O. A Fraction is expressed in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. ILL. Ex. Reduce -fy to its lowest terms. 8 — 4X 2; 10 = 5X2. Dividing the numerator and denominator... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1866 - 336 pages
...REDUCTION or FRACTIONS is the process of changing their forms without altering their values. CASE I. 121. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its terms are prime to each other. 1. Reduce . . to its lowest terms. 9 b с We factor both terms.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Algebra - 1866 - 328 pages
...Reduction of a quantity is the operation of changing its form without altering its value. CASE I. 109. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. Uab2c I. Reduce „i ii.¿¡ to its lowest terms.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1868 - 430 pages
...Reduction of a fraction is the operation of changing its form without altering its value. CASE I. 194. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction...value of a fraction to suppress the same factor in buth numerator and denominator, (119, III), we have the following RULE. I. Resolve the numerator and... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 358 pages
...Is changing their form without altering their value. CASE I. ART. 138. To reduce a fraction to ils lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when...numerator and denominator are prime to each other. Art. 110, Def. 5. Thus, | is in its lowest terms, while §5 is not. 1. Reduce |£ to its lowest terms.... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...f to forty-eighths. 14/f • To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 148. A fraction is expressed in its lowest terms when the numerator 'and denominator are prime to each other. 1. Reduce if to its lowest terms. ANALYSIS. — J equals Jj-, .-. | of the number of twenty-firsts... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...||, and f to forty-eighths. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. 148, A fraction is expressed in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 1. Reduce if to its lowest terms. ANALYSIS. — J equals 5\, /. \ of the number of twenty-first* will... | |
 | Richard Wormell - Arithmetic - 1868 - 170 pages
...than in any of tic others. When thus expressed, the fraction is said to be in its lowest terms. 139. A fraction is in its lowest terms when the numerator and denominator have no common factor. Express each of the following fractions in six different ways : — I, *, if-... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Arithmetic - 1869 - 348 pages
...operations may be performed on fractions 1— 141. What is meant by U'ducing a fraction ? 142. CASE I. — To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms when its numerator and denominator have no common divisor greater than 1. EXAMPLE. — Reduce 41 to its... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1870 - 334 pages
...the process of changing their forms without altering their values. CASE I. J 121. To reduce airaction to its lowest terms. A fraction is in its lowest terms, when its terms are prime to each other. 1. Reduce . . to its lowest terms. 9 b с We factor both terms.... | |
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