SOLUTION: A student simplified a fraction to -2/9 by removing the common factors, which were 2 and 9. What was the original fraction? Don't they mean greatest common factor? Is it -4/18?
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Question 352004: A student simplified a fraction to -2/9 by removing the common factors, which were 2 and 9. What was the original fraction? Don't they mean greatest common factor? Is it -4/18?
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2*9=18 greatest common factor.
-2/9 * 18/18 = -36/162
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Ed
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