 Such expressions are sometimes called compound fractions. 178. To multiply a fraction by a fraction, multiply the numerators together for the numerator of the product and the denominators for the denominator of the product.  Heath's Complete Practical Arithmetic - Page 90by Charles Edward White - 1901 - 451 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Hamilton - Arithmetic - 1917 - 410 pages
...Jf means to find } of Jf. 3 -4 fractional part of a fraction z's found by multiplying the numerators for the numerator of the product and the denominators for the denominator of the product. Indicate the operation, and cancel when possible. An integer may be expressed in fractional form, thus... | |
 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith, Joseph Clifton Brown - Mathematics - 1917 - 264 pages
...integer and add the products. For example, 7 x 2| = 14^ = 191. To multiply a fraction by a fraction, multiply the numerators together for the numerator of the product and the denominators together for the denominator of the product. This case, familiar to the student, is mentioned here... | |
 | John Bascom Hamilton, Herbert Earle Buchanan - Mathematics - 1921 - 314 pages
...product of two or more numerical fractions it was only necessary to multiply together the numerators for the numerator of the product, and the denominators for the denominator of the product. The resulting fraction reduced to lowest terms is the product. Precisely the same method is followed... | |
 | John Michael Christman - Machine-shop practice - 1922 - 408 pages
...reduce the fractions to fractions having the same denominator. To multiply a fraction by a fraction, multiply the numerators together for the numerator of the product and the denominators together for the denominator of the product. EXAMPLE: What is the product of \ and £? 12 Multiplying... | |
 | Thomas Jackson Durell, Harry Orrin Gillet, Fletcher Durell - Arithmetic - 1925 - 464 pages
...i means f X iIn each case above, the following rule applies : To multiply one fraction by another, multiply the numerators together for the numerator of the product, and the denominators together for the denominator of the product. (c) In multiplying fractions cancel wherever possible.... | |
 | Robert Lee Morton - Arithmetic - 1927 - 374 pages
...an integer by a fraction? 10. How would you show pupils that to multiply a fraction by a fraction we multiply the numerators together for the numerator of the product and the denominators together for the denominator of the product? 11. How do we change mixed numbers to improper fractions?... | |
 | Education - 1917 - 598 pages
...number or quantity from which another number or quantity is subtracted. (b) Multiply the numerators for the numerator of the product and the denominators for the denominator of the product fraction, remembering to cancel wherever possible. (c) The GCD is the largest number or quantity which... | |
 | 1903 - 588 pages
...use cancellation. T. — How, then, are decimal fractions multiplied together? P. — Same as common fractions. Multiply the numerators together for the numerator of the product and the denominators together for the denominator of the product. Pupils should now have considerable drill in operation... | |
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