What fraction is equivalent to 18 over 12?

Answer 1

The first step to finding equivalent fractions is to find any common divisors between the numerator and the denominator. In this case, both 18 and 12 can divide by 3. Do this and we get 3/2. This is the fraction in its simplest form (although it is vulgar.) The next step is to multiply this by any integer (2, 3, 4...) to get all the other equivalent fractions. This gives us the first few equivalent fractions of 18/12 as:

3/2, 6/4, 9/6, 12/8...