Picture This! Reducing Fractions

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Picture This!Reducing Fractions

• with a multiplication table

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If you have
and want to reduce it to lowest terms,
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you might know to divide top and bottom by 4,
so you get
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But what if you didnt know how to do that?
You can just take your fraction and
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Grab a multiplication table
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Find the numerator AND denominator in one of the
columns
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And look left
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But what if you saw 8 and 12 here?
Look left
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You see 4 and 6

So far, so good
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Now find the 4 and 6 in the same column
Look left
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reduces to
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Whatever you do to the bottom,
you have to do to the top
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