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Picture This! Reducing Fractions

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

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  1. Picture This!Reducing Fractions with a multiplication table

  2. If you have 8 12 and want to reduce it to lowest terms,

  3. you might know to divide top and bottom by 4, 2 3 so you get

  4. But what if you didn’t know how to do that? You can just take your fraction and …

  5. Grab a multiplication table

  6. Find the numerator AND denominator in one of the columns

  7. And look left

  8. 8 12 2 3 reduces to

  9. But what if you saw 8 and 12 here? Look left

  10. You see 4 and 6 8 12 4 6 = So far, so good

  11. Now find the 4 and 6 in the same column Look left

  12. reduces to 2 3 4 6

  13. Whatever you do to the bottom, 2 2 you have to do to the top

  14. 8 12 4 6 2 3 2 2 2 2 = =

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