Question

25/40 simplified

Answer 1

Divide both by 5. What do you get when you do that? @mike.mcgill is incorrect.

Answer 2

Now you can thank him for giving you the answer without your understanding it at all.

Answer 3

\[\frac{ 25 }{ 40 }\]
First, you find the greatest common factor you could divide out both the top and bottom. In which in this case it is 5.

Then you divide the common factor from both the top and bottom.
\[\frac{ 25 }{ 40 }\rightarrow \frac{ 25\div5 }{ 40\div5 }\rightarrow \frac{ 5 }{ 8 }\]

Your final answer is \[\frac{ 5 }{ 8 }\] since it is the most simplified.