How can you simplify 24 minutes:40 minutes?

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Joe B.
Mar 10, 2018

This ratio simplifies to

3 : 5

Explanation:

Let's rewrite the ratio as a fraction:

#24/40"minutes"/"minutes"#

Now factor the numerator and denominator:

#(2*2*2*3)/(2*2*2*5)"minutes"/"minutes"#

Cancel similar terms:

#(cancel(2*2*2)*3)/(cancel(2*2*2)*5)cancel("minutes")/cancel("minutes")#

The result is: #3/5#
which, expressed as a ratio, is 3 : 5

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