SOLUTION: True or false the quotient of two fractions is the reciprocal of the product of those two fractions.

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Question 1150616: True or false the quotient of two fractions is the reciprocal of the product of those two fractions.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let's make up a couple of random fractions and see if it works:

Say 7/8 and 2/9

We check to see if the quotient of these two fractions 


is the reciprocal of the product of those two fractions.
The product of these two fractions is



and the reciprocal of that product is:

36%2F7

But 36/7 is approximately the decimal 5.142857143
and 63/16 is exactly the decimal 3.9375

So, the statement is false in general.

It's only true if both fraction are either equal to 1 or -1,
For instance, it's true for the two fractions 5/5 and 7/7 or
for the two fractions 9/9 and -13/13, and similar cases.

Edwin