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Title: Dividing Fractions


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Dividing Fractions
  • Lesson 7.4

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To Divide Fractions
  • Rewrite the first fraction.
  • Change the division sign to a multiplication
    sign.
  • Flip the second fraction upside down.
  • Multiply.

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Reciprocal
  • When you flip the second fraction, you are
    writing that fractions reciprocal.

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Example 1
1
1
2
3
Rewrite
1
2
2
x

1
3
3
5
Example 2
4
4
5
9
Rewrite
1
4
9
9
4
1
x


4
1
5
5
5
6
Example 3
12
3
5
1
Rewrite
20
4
12
5
20
x


1
1
3
1
7
Example 4
1
2
6
1
Rewrite
1
1
1
x

6
2
12
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