| Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1810 - 190 pages
...How do yon multiply a whole number by a fraction ? 21. How do you multiply one fraction by another? 22. How do you multiply a mixed number by a mixed...does it appear, that in multiplying both terms of the fraction^y the same number the value of the fraction is not altered ? 24. How many ways are there to... | |
| George G. Carey - Arithmetic - 1818 - 602 pages
...both »increased or diminished in the same proportion, that is, if they arc both multiplied or divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered ; therefore every Vulgar Fraction may be expressed in a variety of forms, and yet retain the same value.... | |
| George Lees - 1826 - 276 pages
...denominator. The principle of this rule is, that if the numerator and denominator be both multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered. That both terms are multiplied by the same number, by applying the preceding rule, will readily appear... | |
| Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1831 - 276 pages
...How do you multiply a whole number by a fraction? 21. How do you multiply one fraction by another? 22. How do you multiply a mixed number by a mixed...? 23. How does it appear, that in multiplying both terras of the fraction by the same number the value of the fraction is not altered ? 24. How many ways... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1831 - 108 pages
...most important property of a fraction is, that if both its numerator and denominator are multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered ; that is, £ is the same as i|, or each part is the same when we divide 12 inches into 20 parts, as... | |
| Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...depend, is the following : If the numerator and denominator be either both multiplied or both divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered. For example, take £ and multiply its numerator and denominator by 4, which gives -JJ-. In the second... | |
| Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1833 - 268 pages
...How do you multiply a whole number by a fraction? 21. How do you multiply one fraction by another? 22. How do you multiply a mixed number by a mixed...the fraction is not altered ? 24. How many ways are here to divide a fraction by a whole number ? — What are they? 25. How does it appear that a fraction... | |
| A. Turnbull - Arithmetic - 1836 - 368 pages
...proceM 297. It has been shown repeatedly that if both terms of a fraction be multiplied or divided by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered ; therefore, in reducing compound fractions, if any of the numerators and denominators can be divided... | |
| Mathematics - 1836 - 352 pages
...most important property of a fraction is, that if both its numerator and denominator are multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered ; that is, $ is the same as |.|-, or each part is the same when we divide 12 inches into 20 parts,... | |
| Silas Totten - Algebra - 1836 - 332 pages
...the preceding rule depends upon the following principle. If both terms of a fraction be multiplied by the same number, the value of the fraction is not altered ; for, by multiplying the numerator, the fraction is multiplied (20), and by multiplying the denominator,... | |
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