 | 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... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...common denominator, • 30 __ ao „_ io «_ i ~rs TO TO ~ * Multiplication of fractions is performed by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator; thus to multiply *. by | ; we say % x | = T6S ftr the answer. .• •"- "•/... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...brought to a common denominator, 30 a 0 ioi -f-3 TV — T5 — T Multiplication of fractions is performed by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator; thus to multiply i by ^ ; we say * x | = T6, for the answer. Fractions are divided... | |
 | Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - Arts - 1819 - 432 pages
...the divisor the same, the quotient must be c times as great. The product of two fractions is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator. Let -7 and - be the two fractions ; then bd f=»by multiplying the equal i;unm... | |
 | Beriah Stevens - Arithmetic - 1822 - 436 pages
...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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Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator. 
