 | John Roscoe Clark - Mathematics - 1925 - 170 pages
...doing it is provided. Call attention to the fact, and prove by many illustrations, that both terms of a fraction may be multiplied or divided by the same number, without changing the value represented by the fraction. Mistakes in signs. The fact many pupils added when subtraction was indicated... | |
 | William Le Roy Hart - Algebra - 1926 - 412 pages
...(20 + a)3. 64. (i - y)3. CHAPTER III FRACTIONS 17. Fundamental principle. — The numerator and the denominator of a fraction may be multiplied or divided by the same number (not 0) without changing the value of the fraction. Thus - = 3 x 4 = I? • ?4 = 24 --=- 12 = 2. '7... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry, Charles Beverley Benson - Arithmetic - 1926 - 364 pages
...easy but very important rule. The two terms of a fraction — the numerator and denominator — can be DIVIDED by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. 69. What number will divide the two terms of the fraction ^-f? Dividing both terms by 2, we have 16—2... | |
 | J. Andrew Drushel, John William Withers - Mathematics - 1926 - 336 pages
...of a fraction (numerator and denominator) may be multiplied by the same number, or both terms may be divided by the same number, without changing the value of the fraction. f = £. What was done to f ? f = f . What was done to f ? The above principle holds for algebraic fractions... | |
 | Harold B. Ray, Arnold V. Doub, Oka Frank Carpenter - Arithmetic - 1927 - 88 pages
...places in the quotient as in the dividend. In the discussion of common fractions it was shown that both numerator and denominator of a fraction may be...without changing the value of the fraction. Thus: etc. Example 2: Divide 3354 by .078. This problem may be written as a fraction, numerator and denominator... | |
 | Robert Lee Morton - Arithmetic - 1927 - 370 pages
...have suggested that the converse of the general principle, that both numerator and denominator can be divided by the same number without changing the value of the fraction, be pointed out to the pupils when they have learned to reduce fractions to lowest terms. They will... | |
 | United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - Materia medica - 1950 - 230 pages
...read 15 to 3. The ratio is obtained by dividing one number by the other. Both terms of a ratio can be multiplied or divided by the same number without changing the value of the ratio. For example, if we multiply both terms of the ratio 15 : 3 by 5, we have 75 : 15. If we divide... | |
 | U.S. Naval Hospital Corps School (Portsmouth, Va.) - Naval hygiene - 1955 - 298 pages
...read 15 to 3. The ratio is obtained by dividing one number by the other. Both terms of a ratio can be multiplied or divided by the same number without changing the value of the ratio. For example, if we multiply both terms of the ratio 15:3 by 5, we have 75:15. If we divide both... | |
 | Robert Andrew Bell, Research and Education Association - Study Aids - 1999 - 458 pages
...denominators in both fractions 48. This can be done because the numerator and denominator of a fraction can be multiplied (or divided) by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. So, this is how to determine what number you 11 5 should multiply — and — by so that their denominators... | |
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Both terms of a fraction may be divided by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. 
