Example: 16/48 x 2/3 The GCF of 16 and 48 is 16, so 16 can be divided into both numbers, simplifying 16/48 to 1/3. The problem then becomes 1/3 x 2/3 = 2/9
It depends on what you're simplifying. If you are simplifying a fraction, then yes. You would be dividing both numbers by their GCF. Or greatest common factor. For example if you had 24/48. You would divide both by 24, the GCF. Leaving you with 1/2. (:
put 65 over 100 and simplify. without simplifying it is 3 and 65 over 100
Simplifying the fraction.
Simplifying.
To simplify a fraction, you find a number that can be divided by the fraction you are simplifying. sometimes this does not always work and the fraction can not be simplified.
13/100 there is no other way of simplifying this fraction :)
Simplifying fraction form = 4945945946/1000000000 = 2472972973/500000000 = 4 472972973/500000000
48 as a fraction = 48/1
simplifying the fraction
You can use common multiples of the numerator and denominator.
Let us say that you have the fraction 48/8 and you would like to simplify it. If you can find the multiplication list for the number 8, you will see that 6 x 8 = 48. Hence, 48/8 = 6. But maybe it doesn't work out that neatly all the time. Perhaps you have 49/8 as a fraction. It still may be helpful to make that into 6 and an eighth.