| Thomas Simpson - Algebra - 1800 - 448 pages
...+*<•+". a + l> a + b 2". A compound fraflivn is reduced to a fimple one of the fame value, by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator. But by a compound fraction here, we are not to unlatter : for in reducing to the loweft terms, it is... | |
| Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Calculus - 1801 - 724 pages
...multiplication of fra&ions requires no fuch preparation, but is performed directly, by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator. The product:, or fraction thence arifing, may often be reduced by fome of the foregoing methods. 34.... | |
| Daniel Fenning - Algebra - 1802 - 274 pages
...numbers to improper fractions, and the compound to fimple fractions, the rule is, multiply the two numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator, and you have the product or anfwer ; •which, if it be an improper iraclion, reduce to a mixt number,... | |
| John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...FRACTIONS. This operation consists in multiplying the numerators of the two given fractions into one another for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator to the product : thus iii multiplying j by £, the product of the numerators being 6, and that of the... | |
| Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...to improper fractions, .then invert the divisor (that is put the numerator for the denominator) and multiply the numerators together for a new numerator,...and the denominators together for a new denominator ; and the fraction thus found is the quotient required. Examples. 1 _ 1. Divide ^ by -• 6 8X 1 ~... | |
| Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1814 - 300 pages
...we derive the following . • > RULE. Q. How do you proceed to multiply one Traction by another T A. Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator...and the denominators together for a new denominator. AW«.— If the fraction be t mixed number, reduce it to an tmproper fractío» , roceed t» before.... | |
| John Dougall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 514 pages
...FRACTIONS. . . » This consists in multiplying the numerators of the two given fractious into each other, for a new numerator, and the denominators together, for a new denominator to that product. Thus in multiplying jf by j we have for a product -Jf equal to $. This may be made... | |
| Jeremiah Day - Algebra - 1820 - 352 pages
...repeated, by multiplying the numerator. We have then the following rule : 155. To MULTIl'LY FRACTIONS, MULTIPLY THE NUMERATORS TOGETHER, FOR A NEW NUMERATOR, AND THE DENOMINATORS TOGETHER, FO/. JEW DENOMINATOR. 3b TF 3bd Ex. 1. Multiply— into ^j. Product g^. a + d 4h 4ah+4dfi 2. Multiply... | |
| Beriah Stevens - Arithmetic - 1822 - 436 pages
...instead of the pre; osition of, insert the sign of multiplication : then proceed by the following RULE. Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator,...and the denominators together for a new denominator. NOTE. — Multiplication of Fractions is only the expression of a compound fraction. 'I bus, a multiplied... | |
| James Mitchell - Mathematics - 1823 - 666 pages
...the denominator in the second. case. III. To reduce a compound fraction to a simple one. Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a denominator, and it will be the fraction sought. If any of the proposed quantities be integral, or... | |
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