 | Zadock Thompson - 1826 - 176 σελίδες
...terms of the fraction by their greatest common measure, and the quotient will be the fraction required. •Dividing; both terms of a fraction by the same number does not at all alter its value. If the greatest common measure of a fraction be J, the fraction is already... | |
 | George Willson - 1836 - 202 σελίδες
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. IT has already been shown, that multiplying or dividing, both the terms of a fraction, by the same number, does not change its value. But multiplying or dividing one of the terms, the other remaining the same, changes the value of a... | |
 | George Willson - 1838 - 194 σελίδες
...MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. IT lias already been shown, that multiplying or dividing, both the terms of a fraction, by the same. number, does not change its value. But multiplying or dividing one of the terms, the other remaining the same, changes the value of a... | |
 | Uriah Parke - 1849 - 414 σελίδες
...case have one half. From this proposition the following results as a matter of course^ PROPOSITION 25. or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value. If the terms of | be multiplied by 2, they become T8Z and if divided by 2 they become... | |
 | Uriah Parke - 1850 - 402 σελίδες
...case have one half. From this proposition the following results as a matter of course. PROPOSITION 25. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not alter its value. If the terms of | be multiplied by 2, they become f% and if divided by 2 they become... | |
 | John Hunter - 1852 - 184 σελίδες
...measure of 1173 and 1518. The principal steps of the investigation may be marked as follows : — * Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number is, in effect, multiplying or dividing the fraction by unity. Thus JX % = f J ; but T, = 1 ; therefore... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1853 - 330 σελίδες
...simplest terms. 17. Reduce ^i/j of a dollar to its lowest terms. 18. What is the simplest form of REMARK. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number, only alters its form not its value. (See Division, sec. 175.) 19. Reduce -f^-g to its simplest form.... | |
 | James Gray - 1854 - 120 σελίδες
...fraction, as 4^. NOTE 1. Any whole number may be expressed like a fraction, by writing 1 under it. 2. Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction...not change its value. REDUCTION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. PROB. l. To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms. RULE. Find a common measure thus : Divide the denominator... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - 1857 - 376 σελίδες
...both nuT mcrator and denominator of this complex fraction, -, by 7, we 7 obtain J ; but multiplying both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value (60, Cor.), .-.- = £; ie the reciprocal of f is £ ; and, generally, the reciprocal of any fraction... | |
 | John Daniel Runkle - 1860 - 460 σελίδες
...2. Reduction of Fractions to a Common Denominator. — After the pupil has thoroughly learned that multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value, he is then prepared to learn how to reduce fractions to a common denominator. The following process... | |
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Multiplying or dividing both terms of a fraction by the same number does not change its value. 
