How do you divide rational numbers?

1 Answer
Jul 16, 2018

Just divide them as normal

Explanation:

Take two rational numbers, b/c and p/q

How do we divide these? Simple! All we have to do is find the recipricol operation of the problem. That is:

b/c / p/q = b/c * q/p

Note that the q is switched from the denominator to the numerator, as it is the recipricol operation.

From there, just solve as normal!