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To find a missing numerator or denominator in a fraction, you can set up a proportion using the known values. For example, if you have the fraction 2/x = 3/6, you can cross multiply to find the missing numerator: 26 = 3x. Solve for x to find the missing denominator. Alternatively, if you have the fraction y/4 = 5/10, you can cross multiply to find the missing numerator: y10 = 54, and then solve for y to find the missing numerator.

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If you have 2 fractions then you do cross multiplication where you take the left numerator and times it by the right denominator if your looking for the numerator. If your looking for the denominator then you do the same thing only you use the top as your divider not the bottom.

Well if it is an equation with another fraction equaling it, you can multiply the denominator by a number that will allow it to have the same value of the denominator in the other fraction. Once you know that number ( the one it took so the denominators were equal when multiplied) you just divide the fraction ( the one you have both denominator and numerator) by that number, and put it over the original lone denominator, then you have your answer. If you only have the numerator you use pretty much the same concept except opposite the steps.

Here's an example:

7/? = 21/30

You would know 7 multiplies with 3 to get 21, so you divide 30 by 3 (the number it took to get 7 to be 21), and you get 10. Then you put the 10 underneath the original 7/? resulting in the answer being 7/10. So 7/10=21/30. Hope this is the answer you were looking for.

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1/3=2/

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