To simplify a multiplication or division involving fractions, you need to find common factors. For small numbers, you might just try to do a complete factorization of each of the numbers involved. It's best not to multiply them in the first place; it doesn't really make sense to multiply and then factorize again. For larger numbers, you can use Euclid's algorithm to find the greatest common factor.
You divide top and bottom by the same number, if you find a common factor. For example, if your fraction is 9/12, you check whether top and bottom have any common factor greater than one (in this case, the common factor is 3), and then you divide top and bottom by 3, to get 3/4.
You find the highest common factor of the numerator and denominator. If that is 1, then the fraction is in its simplest form.
A fraction is in simplest form when the numerator and denominator have no common factor except ' 1 '.
To simplify a fraction, the numerator and denominator are divided by a common factor. The simplification process is continued until there is no common factor. By dividing the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor no further simplification is possible.
Divide the numerator and denominator by their highest common factor to find the simplest form of a fraction
You divide top and bottom by the same number, if you find a common factor. For example, if your fraction is 9/12, you check whether top and bottom have any common factor greater than one (in this case, the common factor is 3), and then you divide top and bottom by 3, to get 3/4.
The least common factor is always 1.
Find the greatest common factor between the numerator and the denominator, then divide the numerator by greatest common factor and then divide denominator by greatest common factor, for a new simplified fraction.
You find the highest common factor of the numerator and denominator. If that is 1, then the fraction is in its simplest form.
find the greatest common factor divide by it then you have an answer
See if you can find a common factor between the two numbers. Then divide top and bottom of the fraction by this common factor.
Find the highest common factor of the numerator and the denominator and divide the factor into both of them to change the fraction into its lowest terms.
you find the GCF (GREATEST COMMON FACTOR) then you divide or multiply you can pick and then you get you simplest from of the fraction
A fraction is in simplest form when the numerator and denominator have no common factor except ' 1 '.
To simplify a fraction, the numerator and denominator are divided by a common factor. The simplification process is continued until there is no common factor. By dividing the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor no further simplification is possible.
Divide the numerator and denominator by their highest common factor to find the simplest form of a fraction
The greatest common factor, or GCF, is the largest positive integer that will divide evenly with no remainder into all the members of a given set of numbers. If you find the GCF of the numerator and denominator of a fraction and divide them by it, you will find the simplest form of the fraction. If the GCF is 1, the fraction is already in its simplest form.