 | Charles Ernest Chadsey, James Hamblin Smith - Arithmetic - 1917 - 328 pages
...diagram to show that the value of the fraction has not been changed. From these examples we see that: Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does . not change the value of the fraction. Exercise 6. Changing to Lowest Terms We have seen in the preceding exercise that we may divide both... | |
 | Charles Ernest Chadsey, James Hamblin Smith - Arithmetic - 1917 - 298 pages
...many of them, has the value of the fraction been changed? From these examples we see that: Multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. Exercise 5 1. Divide both terms of the fraction yf- by 4 as follows: Te- •*-T = ir 12 2. Compare... | |
 | William Henry Dooley - Arithmetic - 1917 - 388 pages
...to each other. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. Dividing the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. Tlie process of dividing the numerator and denominator of a fraction by a number common to both may... | |
 | Samuel Hamilton - Arithmetic - 1917 - 410 pages
...Reduction is the process of changing the terms of a fraction without changing its value. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. Changing a fraction to higher terms. Oral Work 1. Explain why a fraction is expressed in... | |
 | Clarence Wesley Sutton, Nels Johann Lennes - Business mathematics - 1918 - 320 pages
...above equations backward, we have t = f, t = i, i = T = !• The above property may then be stated: Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. These two rules may be stated in one as follows: Multiplying or dividing both terms of a... | |
 | Clarence Wesley Sutton, Nels Johann Lennes - Business mathematics - 1918 - 488 pages
...same number does not change its value. These two rules may be stated in one as follows: Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. 112. Fractions in Lowest Terms. — When the numerator and denominator of a fraction have... | |
 | United States - 1918 - 840 pages
...4-n2_j^.J: _4_ 12 ~ 12' 12X2 ~ 24 12' 12 12'12-~2 6' To multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same number does not change the value of the fraction ; multiplying raises it to higher terms, and dividing reduces it to lower terms. To reduce a fraction... | |
 | Walter Burton Ford, Charles Ammerman - Algebra - 1919 - 360 pages
...,xу _ x2 x у xу . г/ xz EXERCISES, SECOND LIST, PAGE 161 1. Dividing the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. q2 - 2 a - 15 _ (л 6)(a + 3) _ а+_§ * 3 - _ )(3я 3) _ . 2x-3 -3x2 — 4 а; rг/- 6д— 6г/_... | |
 | Charles Ernest Chadsey, James Hamblin Smith - Arithmetic - 1920 - 328 pages
...diagram to show that the value of the fraction has not been changed. From these examples we see that : t Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. Exercise 6. Changing to Lowest Terms We have seen in the preceding exercise that we may divide both... | |
 | Theodore Lindquist - Mathematics - 1920 - 260 pages
...to Equivalent Fractions. — Which is more, | or | of a yard ? J or A of a dollar ? Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. Such changes are called reductions, and the fractions are said to be equivalent. Thus, f... | |
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Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 
