Question

I need help with reducing fractions omg

Answer 1

what's your question dear? ^_^

Answer 2

Well I tryied reducing the fraction for example to reduce 10/36 I would multiply 5*2=10 & 6*6=36 I dont know what I'm doing wrong

Answer 3

Reducing is dividing both top and bottom by a common factor. The only thing common is 2 giving you : 5/18

Answer 4

I still dont get it @ all. I understand that i need to divide both bottom & top. Explain more way's that I can learn this to make it short for me.

Answer 5

DO you have another example and I will help you work through it to better understand it?

Answer 6

DO you have another example and I will help you work through it to better understand it?

Answer 7

Ok 30/45 How would I reduce This ?

Answer 8

ok so what is a common number that can go into both the numerator and denominator?

Answer 9

30/45 will be 2/3, get it?

Answer 10

right.... 30/45=2/3
to get that you can divide
30/5=6
45/5=9
your fraction now looks like 6/9 and this can be simplified even more!
3 goes into both 6 and nine evenly
6/3=2
9/3=3
your final simplified fraction and answer is:2/3

Answer 11

dear, to reduce means to simplify :) now what do we have here:

10/36 ask yourself this question, can you divide both by2? try them out

10/ 2 = 5

36/2 = 18

it gave us a whole number and not a decimal number, so the answer is yes, since both numbers are even :) then in this case, you can simplify by dividing top and bottom with 2 in this case and you'll get :

10/36 = 5/16 <-- simplified form ^_^

are you getting it now? :)

Answer 12

another example, simplify this :

9/27 now we can't divide these by 2 since they are not multiples of 2, but they are multiples of 3, so divide both by 3 and you'll get :

9/27 = 3/9<-- still not in simple form, so divide again : 1/3<--cannot be simplified more , stop :)

^_^better?