What fraction is equivalent to 175 over 75?

Answer 1

To find equivalent fractions, you first need to identify any common factors between the numerator and the denominator. In this case, both 175 and 75 can divide by 25. Do this and we have simplified the fraction to 7/3. This is the fraction in its simplest form (although it is vulgar). The next step to finding other equivalent fractions is to multiply this fraction by any integer (2, 3, 4, etc.)

That gives us the first few equivalent fractions as:

7/3, 14/6, 21/9, 28/12...