Cancelling Fractions
What is the Greatest Common Factor that simplifies the following fraction multiplication| 2 x 4 x 10 | |
| 60 x 4 x 2 |
Answer
The key to fraction simplification is finding like terms in the numerator or denominator, or master your GCF knowledge
We see in the numerator and denominator that 4 and 2 both exist
4 x 2 = 8
Cancelling 8 from top and bottom of our fraction, we get
| 60 x |
| 10 | |
| 60 |
Our leftover fraction is still not in simplest form
From our GCF Basics Lesson, we get a gcf of 10
Reducing it by a greatest common factor of 10, we get
| 1 | |
| 6 |
Therefore our total GCF reduction is 4 x 2 x 10 = 80
