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How do you simplify the fraction negative 12 over positive 4?
Step 1: Ignore the signs, just simplify the fraction.Step 2: Count the number of negative (minus) signs. If there is one, then the answer is negative, otherwise it is positive.Step 2 can also be stated thus:-/- or +/+ = plus-/+ or +/- = minusSo, -12/412/4 = 3 and there is only 1 negative sign so the answer is negative.Answer: -3.Hope that explains it.
How do you simplify the fraction 1.5 over 2?
To simplify this fraction, you would need to do one of the following: a) Divide (1.5/2) to get 0.75, which simplifies to 3/4 b) multiply 1.5/2 by 10/10 to eliminate the decimal. Simplify 15/20 to 3/4 by dividing by 5/5.
What is eight and two fourths divided by two fourths?
First, you simplify 8 2/4 to 8 1/2 and change 8 1/2 to 11 over 2. Then, change the division sign to a multiplication sign and flip over 2/4 and it becomes 4/2. Next you multiply 11/2 times 4/2 and it equals 44/4 and you simplify 44/4 and that equals 11/1= 11.
Simplify 18 over 24 as a fraction?
3 over 4
How do you simplify 12 and 10 over 8?
12 and 10/8 = 13 and 2/8 = 131/4
