How do you simplify $\frac{8}{32}$ $8/32$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-03T23:31:44

$\frac{1}{4}$ $1/4$

$32$ $32$ is the same as $8 \cdot 4$ $8 * 4$ , which means we can rewrite the fraction as

$\frac{8}{8 \cdot 4}$ $8/(8*4)$

Since top and bottom are multiples of $8$ $8$ , it can be cancelled out

$\frac{8 \cdot 1}{8 \cdot 4} = \frac{1}{4}$ $(8*1)/(8*4) = 1/4$

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