... denominator by 3x. Rule : To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms, Factor the numerator and denominator into prime factors, and cancel the factors common to both. Cancellation as used in the rule really means that we actually divide both terms of... Brief Course in Algebra - Page 116by Raymond Earl Manchester - 1915 - 198 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Tayler - 1824 - 350 pages
...fraction '•-, which has already been ""' shown to be equal to —b. 104. If therefore it be required to reduce a fraction to its lowest terms, it is only necessary to find any number by which both the numerator and the denominator can be divided. A number of this sort... | |
| James Ryan - Arithmetic - 1827 - 290 pages
...a multiple of 6) is a multiple of 3, the denominator of the equal fraction J. 91. To bring a given fraction to its lowest terms, it is only necessary to divide both its terms by their greatest common measure, that is, by the greatest number which evenly divides them... | |
| Charles Ernest Chadsey - 1914 - 274 pages
...should be expressed in the lowest terms. The shortest way to reduce ^ and |-£ to the lowest terms is to divide both terms of the fraction by the highest common factor, which is 16. By the longer method we may divide the terms successively by 2, 2, 2, and 2; or by 2,... | |
| John Bascom Hamilton, Herbert Earle Buchanan - Mathematics - 1921 - 310 pages
...factor other than unity, then the fraction is said to be in its lowest terms. 245. It follows, then, that to reduce a fraction to its lowest terms it is only necessary to divide both numerator and denominator by their common factors, or to divide both terms by their hcf, which by Principle... | |
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