SOLUTION: Hello, I was looking over your site and I wanted to clarify something that I was reading. To divide fractions you multiply the first numerator by the second denominator and the r

Question 176442: Hello,
I was looking over your site and I wanted to clarify something that I was reading. To divide fractions you multiply the first numerator by the second denominator and the reverse for the other side. or briefly stated flip the second fraction and just multiply straight across. On the website the instructions say the above but the example shows multiplication of fractions example, correct?
Thanks
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's say that you want to divide the fraction by the fraction

This would look like

To divide, simply multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction . In other words, flip the second fraction to get and multiply like this:

From there, you multiply and simplify.
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