 Since the numerator and denominator of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without changing the value of the fraction, they may also be divided by the same number without changing its value ; for this is only undoing the previous multipli,...  School Arithmetics: Book One-three - Page 47by George Albert Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - 1920Full view - About this book
 | William A. Campbell, Thomas Houghton Hughes - Arithmetic - 1917 - 336 pages
...multiplying both terms by the same number? What is the effect of dividing both terms by the same number? Both terms of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number or divided by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. This process of changing... | |
 | Harold Ordway Rugg, John Roscoe Clark - Mathematics - 1919 - 400 pages
...rather than a decimal. This method is based upon the principle that both numerator and denominator may be multiplied by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. You must always multiply by. a number that will make the denominator a perfect square. Why ? Which... | |
 | Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - Arithmetic - 1919 - 388 pages
...both numerator and denominator by 2. Rule I. — The numerator and denominator of a fraction may each be multiplied by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. Referring again to the fact that | = £, or that £ = £, notice that | can be obtained from £ by... | |
 | Nels Johann Lennes, Frances Jenkins - Arithmetic - 1920 - 478 pages
...4X1 _ 4• mat is, 2 ~ 2X2 ~ 4 , 2 -4X2 8, 3 4X3 ~ 12 These examples illustrate the following rule : Both terms of a fraction may be multiplied by the...number without changing the value of the fraction. ORAL EXERCISES Supply the missing numbers: ! 1 = T i= T 3 = T 2 = T 8 = ~T , i = J_ A = JL A = J_ 5=... | |
 | Nels Johann Lennes, Frances Jenkins - Arithmetic - 1920 - 392 pages
...the consideration of fractions of an integer. The essential point developed on these two pages is, that both terms of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without changing its value; that is, ^ is equal to f-, \ is equal to |-, ^ is equal to f , and so on. It is not suggested... | |
 | Walter Wilson Hart - 1921 - 250 pages
...multiplying both terms of £ by 3. Law I. — The numerator and the denominator of a fraction may each be multiplied by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. Law II. — The numerator and the denominator of a fraction may each be divided by the same number... | |
 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith, Herbert Druery Harper - Mathematics - 1922 - 214 pages
...20 _ 40 4 ~ 8 ~ 16 ~ 32 ~ 64 8 16 ~ 38 64 From these equalities we see that the following is true : Both terms of a fraction may be multiplied by the...terms of a fraction may be divided by the same number uithout changing the value of the fraction. Adding Fractions. For example, in the blueprint of the... | |
 | Clarence Elmer Comstock, Mabel Sykes - Algebra - 1922 - 332 pages
...the form of simple fractions most readily if we make use of the fundamental principle of the fraction that both terms of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without any change in the value of the fraction. In the case given above multiply both terms by 62: *+i (^+i\2... | |
 | James Robert Overman - Arithmetic - 1923 - 396 pages
...should ordinarily be attempted when they are first presented. I. Both the numerator and denominator of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without changing the value of the fraction. The denominator of a fraction tells the number of equal parts into which some whole has been divided.... | |
 | Nels Johann Lennes - Arithmetic - 1923 - 502 pages
...however, the information contained in 1 (2 = 2/4 and 3 /7 = 9/21 is generalized into the statement, "Both terms of a fraction may be multiplied by the same number without changing its value" it will carry over to the problem of simplifying this complex fraction by multiplying its... | |
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