SOLUTION: Can you please help me with this fraction problem? 15 5 -----b = --- 16 12

Question 725423: Can you please help me with this fraction problem?
15 5
-----b = ---
16 12
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Divide both sides by , which is the same as multiplying times .
--> --> --> --> --> -->

NOTE:
You do not need to write all of
--> --> --> --> --> -->
For your teacher, --> may be enough.
At most your teacher may want to see some cancelling out of factors that is easy to scribble on paper, but I would not know how to type here.
In any case the crossing out of those factors is not algebra voodoo magic. It is the rearranging to give those (1) factors.
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