How do you simplify \frac{4}{6}\div \frac{2}{8}?

1 Answer
Apr 23, 2018

8/3

Explanation:

Find the reciprocal of the second fraction (flip it)

(my teacher has this saying like "when dividing, don't be shy, flip the second and multiply")

so:

4/6 * 8/2

then multiply the numerators, and then multiply the denominators

=(4*8)/(6*2)

=32/12 (both top and bottom divisible by 4)

=8/3