50,000/65,000 reduce to lowest terms and how do u get answer?

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50,000/65,000 reduce to lowest terms and how do u get answer?>

mathteacher1729 · Answer

First, anytime you have stuff with lots of zeros at the end, you can just chop off the zeros: 

100/100 = 1 

10/1,000 = 1/100

1,000,000/1,000 = 1,000/1

etc. 

Now, let's say we have 20,000/85,000 .... this reduces to 20/85. 

Now just reduce 20/85 by factoring and canceling like factors. :) 

From this, can you see where to go with your prob?

anonymous · Answer

for some reason these are soo confusing lets see.. like factors would be....5?

mathteacher1729 · Answer

"like factors would be 5" -- yes. :) 

Any number which ends in 0 or 5 is automatically divisible by 5.

anonymous · Answer

cancel out zeros:  50/65
divide by 5: 10/13

anonymous · Answer

so the answer is yaya i was right ok for some reason i did the caculator thing online and got different thats scary..

mathteacher1729 · Answer

roseanne, I left a message on one of your earlier posts about http://www.mathtv.com -- you might find that website very helpful. (click basic math > and then there's tons of stuff about ratio, percents, fractions, etc.)

anonymous · Answer

oh thank you!!!