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How can you rewrite a division problem as a multiplication problem when all factors are fractions?

For example, (5/2) / (-8/5)

 Sep 16, 2014

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(5/2) / (-8/5)        just invert the second fraction and change to  multiplication....so we have

(5/2) * (5/-8)   = 25/-16  

 

 Sep 16, 2014
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(5/2) / (-8/5)        just invert the second fraction and change to  multiplication....so we have

(5/2) * (5/-8)   = 25/-16  

 

CPhill Sep 16, 2014

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