How do you reduce $2/10$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-06-06T21:56:21

The answer is $1/5$ .

$2/10$ can be broken down we can divide the top and bottom by 2. If we do this we get $1/5$ .

Answer 2 · 2017-06-06T21:57:16

We can rewrite this fraction by factoring as: $2/10 = (2 xx 1)/(2 xx 5)$

We can then cancel the common terms in the numerator and denominator:

$(2 xx 1)/(2 xx 5) = (color(red)(cancel(color(black)(2))) xx 1)/(color(red)(cancel(color(black)(2))) xx 5) = 1/5$

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