SOLUTION: Perform the indicated operations and simplify. Leave answers as fractions, a/b, in simplified form

Question 80144: Perform the indicated operations and simplify.
Leave answers as fractions, a/b, in simplified form

Answer by sofiyacherni(99) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
this is the same as
, so you got rid of the division and replaced it with multiplication by flipping denominator with numerator (bottom and top of a fraction)
now you have to siplify
you can cancel out
you can cancel out 5 on top with 15 on bottom, except now instead of 15 you will have a 3, since five goes in 15 three times ie
you can cancel out a 4 out of top and bottom also since 8 is divisible by 4 and so is 12, now you will have 3 instead of 12 and 2 instead of 8.
so now you can get rid of a 3 on top and 3 on bottom and that number becomes a 1. Anything times 1 stays the same, so your answer is

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