JLIUrilMrTIC. 

 EXAMPLES. 



I. Reduce |- of a penny to the fraction of a poTind. 



i <^^ tV ^^ t^^i^V^^tIt ^^- answer. 

 And--^ of V' of V=:^^r=xd. the proof. 

 7. Reduce y of a farthing to the fraction of a pound. 



Ans. -,-^-^-^, 



3. Reduce ~-^£. to the fraction of a penny. Ans. •*- . 



4. Reduce y of a dwt. to the fraction of a pound Troy. 



Ans. -j^. 



5. Reduce — of a pound avoirdupois to the fraction of 

 a cwt. _ Ans. ~^. 



6. Reduce y-Zj-r of a hhd. of wine to the fraction of a 

 pint. Ans. ~p 



7. Reduce -,^y of a month to the fraction of a day. 



Ans. 4f 



8. *Reduce 7s. 3d. to the fraction of a pound. Ans. j-^~, 



9. Express 6fur. i6pls. in the fraction of a mile. Ans. -j. 



Addition of Vulgar Fractions. 



R U L E.f 

 Reduce compound fractions to single ones ; mixed' 

 numbers to improper fractions ; fractions of diiFcreiit iiite- 



gcrs 



The rule might have been distributed Into two or three diiferent 

 cases, but the directions here given may very easily be" applied to 

 any question, that can be proposed in those cases, and v/ill be more 

 easily understood by an example or two, than by a multiplicity of 

 words. 



* Thus 7s. 3d. = 87d. and il. = 24od. .-.^V^srll the answer. 



f Fractions, before they are reduced to a common denoraina- 

 tor, are entirely dissimilar, and therefore cannot be incorporated 

 with one another ; but when they are reduced to a common de- 

 nominator, and made parts of the same tiding, their sum cr liiii'-r- 



