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I need help with fractions!

! PLEASE!!!! i am so bad at math! please someone help!

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Fuzzy Pepper online Verified User (1 year, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 92 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 months ago (3 minutes after post)

It would probably be easier if you asked your teacher, because math takes time, repetition, a good number sense, and some demonstration.

Besides, you did not tell us specifically what you need help with. Irregular fractions? Similar fractions? Multiplying? Dividing? Adding? All of the above?

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An Undisclosed Location | 5 months ago (5 minutes after post)

aww I am terrible at fractions.
In fact, did you know that 5 out of every 4 people have trouble with them?
The more you know~

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An Unknown Location | 5 months ago (6 minutes after post)

Multiplying! i have the basics down but i just got thrown this… 3/15*5/18*6/17…. the answer is 1/21… i know the answer cause the book has the answers but i cant seem to figure out how the heck it got to that! lol

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An Unknown Location | 5 months ago (33 minutes after post)

ugh i cant figure this out! its crazy! and the whole 5 out of 4 thing was funny! please if u can help i really need it i dont understand this at all and its the onlything i cant get!

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An Unknown Location | 5 months ago (1 hour, 33 minutes after post)

There’s a good site called math.com that gives easy step by step instructions. Or you can google “multiplying fractions” to find another site.

First, you make sure everything is in the lowest terms…so 3/15 becomes 1/5…simple division. 5 doesn’t go into 18 and 6 doesn’t go into 17, so those are fine.

In this case, all you do is multiply across. Multiply all the numerators (top numbers) together and that’s your new top number, then multiply all the denominators (bottom numbers) together and that’s your new bottom number, then simplify it.

so 1 * 5 * 6 over 5 * 18 * 17, so 30 over 1530

Then you divide out how many times 30 goes into 1530.

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