 | Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1875 - 316 pages
...sixtieths, or 2 fifths, ( j). From the above is deduced the following : — 88, PRINCIPLE. — Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms, use the following: — RULE. — Divide the numerator... | |
 | Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...fraction, and dividing the denominator multiplies the fraction. III. Multiplying or dividing both terms by the same number, does not change the value of the fraction. EXERCISES IN WRITING FRACTIONS. 95. Express the following fractions in figures : 1. One half. 2. Two... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1875 - 350 pages
...Lowest Terms, when its numerator and denominator are prime to each other. 174. PRINCIPLE. — Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value (167, III, 2). WRITTEN 1. Reduce f$ to its lowest terms. OPERATION. ANALYSIS. — Dividing... | |
 | Edgar Arthur Singer - Mental arithmetic - 1876 - 198 pages
...not change the value of the fraction. Exercises. Change f to twenty-fourths. 16O. Model, — Since multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction, -f may be changed to 24ths by multiplying the denominator by 3, and the numerator by 3, giving ^r ,... | |
 | Malcolm MacVicar - Arithmetic - 1876 - 412 pages
...equal parts as there are units in the number by which they are multiplied. PKIN. III. — Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction ; thus, ^3 ^ 3 12 -4- 3 ~ 4 The amount expressed by the 9 in the numerator or the 12 in the denominator... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1876 - 230 pages
...equal factors in the dividend and divisor does not change its quotient ; and it also follows, that 3. Multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. 4 4-=-2 4 4X2 Thus, -, or = 2, and -, or r= 2. 2 2-^2 2 2X2 MENTAL EXERCISES. 1. How much... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1876 - 584 pages
...By a general proposition, which we assume has been demonstrated, we have the principle, " Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value;" hence we may reduce if to fourths by dividing both numerator and denominator by any number... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1877 - 402 pages
...Lowest Terms when its numerator and denominator have no common divisor. 161. PRINCIPLE. — Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of tiie fraction. WRITTEN EX&RCISES. 162. 1. Change ff to an equivalent fraction expressed in its smallest,... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1877 - 250 pages
...taken, the value of the fraction will be 4 times as great. 5. Multiplying both numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. . Since multiplying the numerator multiplies the value of the fraction, and multiplying the denominator... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1877 - 402 pages
...result is T%; in -ft there are twice as many parts as in $ , but they are only one-half as 6. Dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. Thus, if both terms of -i^ be divided by 2, the result will be f ; in | there are only one-half... | |
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Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction. 
