SOLUTION: can you simplify 5w/10?

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Question 447810: can you simplify 5w/10?
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YES. Think of it as 5%2F10. Since five goes into ten two times, you could simplify this into 1%2F2. In the same way, you can cancel out the fives in the numerator and denominator: 1w%2F2, or w%2F2.
***Therefore, you can simplify 5w%2F10 into w%2F2