Question

Write as a fraction 56:120 A. 28/60 B. 7/15 C. 3/12 D. 14/28

Answer 1

Ratios are just like fractions :)
56:120
also means 56/120
Next we need to reduce down , so what would you do to it first?

Answer 2

i have absolutely no idea. im really bad at math and i have never gotten the hang of factions

Answer 3

Alright bud , no problem :)
What we do to the top of the fraction, we must do to the bottom.
So to simplify this fraction we'd divide both numbers by 2. so it would be 56/2 / 120/2,
Can you solve that ?

Answer 4

28/60?

Answer 5

Yup!, and we can reduce further cant we!
What numbers go into both 28 and 60?

Answer 6

is it 4?

Answer 7

Yup,! So what's the final answer?

Answer 8

i dont know none of the answers have 4 in them and i really dont know

Answer 9

Oh no, wait up bud!
4 goes into both the answers, but isnt the actual answer! We need to divide both the top and bottom by 4 to get the final answer. Remember, we're simplifying the fraction down to the lowest it can go!

Answer 10

is it 7/15?

Answer 11

yup that's the answer.
So we reached it by simplifying the fraction down to it's roots, or in other words, reducing it down to the least it could possibly be.
to do this we divided the equation by two, and then by four, to find the minimum value it could be.

Hope i helped! 6^

Answer 12

thank you so much!!!!