Question

How do you write this ratio as fraction in lowest terms $4.24 to $11.56 ?

Answer 1

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

We can write the ratio as:

`4.24/11.56`

Now, to eliminate the decimals we can multiply this fraction by `100/100` giving:

`4.24/11.56 xx 100/100 => 424/1156`

We can rewrite and simplify the fraction as:

`(106 xx 4)/(289 xx 4) => (106 xx color(red)(cancel(color(black)(4))))/(289 xx color(red)(cancel(color(black)(4)))) => 106/289`