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OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

Simplify the following complex fraction.

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

MEDAL!

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

@welshfella

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

@AlexandervonHumboldt2

OpenStudy (freckles):

what is the lcm of 2,7, and 9?

OpenStudy (freckles):

that is least common multiple

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

I dont know

OpenStudy (freckles):

if you don't know you could just multiply top and bottom by 2*7*9 (which is actually the lcm in this case of 2 and 7 and 9)

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

126?

OpenStudy (freckles):

\[\frac{2 \cdot 7 \cdot 9 \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{2 \cdot 7 \cdot 9 \cdot \frac{3}{7}+2 \cdot 7 \cdot 9 \cdot \frac{1}{9}}\]

OpenStudy (freckles):

\[\frac{ 7 \cdot 9 \cdot 1 }{2 \cdot 9 \cdot 3+2 \cdot 7 \cdot 1}\]

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

63/68

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

?

OpenStudy (freckles):

the top is 63 the bottom is 54+14 which is 68

OpenStudy (fuzzyball):

ok thank you

OpenStudy (freckles):

so you ever have trouble thinking of the lcm you could just multiply the bottoms together of the mini-fractions this may be a multiple of the lcm but it will work you just might have to reduce some in the end

OpenStudy (freckles):

reduce some more in the end*

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