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Picture This! Reducing Fractions. with a multiplication table. If you have. 8 12. and want to reduce it to lowest terms,. you might know to divide top and bottom by 4,. 2 3. so you get. But what if you didn’t know how to do that?. You can just take your fraction and ….
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Picture This!Reducing Fractions with a multiplication table
If you have 8 12 and want to reduce it to lowest terms,
you might know to divide top and bottom by 4, 2 3 so you get
But what if you didn’t know how to do that? You can just take your fraction and …
8 12 2 3 reduces to
But what if you saw 8 and 12 here? Look left
You see 4 and 6 8 12 4 6 = So far, so good
Now find the 4 and 6 in the same column Look left
reduces to 2 3 4 6
Whatever you do to the bottom, 2 2 you have to do to the top
8 12 4 6 2 3 2 2 2 2 = =