document.write( "Question 248710: hello
\n" ); document.write( " i just started ITT & i'm new to college level math my instructor kinda gave an explanation, but i'm still struggling to understand the questions, one in particular is
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Algebra.Com's Answer #181219 by jim_thompson5910(35256) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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Remember that any fraction of the form $\"a%2Fb\"$ can be rewritten as $\"%28ka%29%2F%28kb%29\"$ where 'k' is some number. In other words, we multiply both the numerator and denominator of $\"a%2Fb\"$ by 'k' to get $\"%28ka%29%2F%28kb%29\"$ .\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In particular, the fraction $\"4%2F5\"$ can be multiplied by some number to get some other fraction. Since we want the denominator to be equal to 20, this means that we multiply the denominator of 5 by 4 to get 5*4=20. We must do the same to the numerator. So what we've done is:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"4%2F5=%284%2Ahighlight%284%29%29%2F%285%2Ahighlight%284%29%29=16%2F20\"$ \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So $\"4%2F5=16%2F20\"$ which means that $\"16%2F20\"$ is an equivalent fraction to $\"4%2F5\"$ but it has a denominator of 20. \n" ); document.write( "

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