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Dividing fractions or numbers by fractions

Explanation:

When dividing you can ask yourself:
"How often can you put 7 into 35?"-> "Five times!"
This is the same question we have to ask, when dividing fractions!
How often can you put a quarter in a half?
Twice!
How often can you put a half into a quarter?
You can only put part of it in.
Only half of it fits.
Howoften can you put 3 Fourteenths into 6 sevenths? You can count this in the same way as we did above.
To count

You can make it simpler!

To divide, you turn the second fraction upside down and then you multiply!



Steps:


A step by step example:

This is what it would look like in the JFractionLab.
Step 1:


Step 2:


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