Practice Objectives
- Demonstrate the ability to find the product of two fractions
- Demonstrate the ability to find the quotient of two fractions
- Demonstrate the ability to reduce a fraction to lowest terms
Practice Multiplying & Dividing Signed Fractions
Instructions:
Answer 7/10 questions correctly to pass.
Perform each indicated operation, simplify your answer.
Write a negative fraction as: -a/b or a/-b.
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Multiplying & Dividing Signed Fractions:
- Determine the sign of the answer
- An even number of negatives gives a positive answer
- An odd number of negatives gives a negative answer
- Work with the absolute values
- Convert any division into multiplication
- Leave the leftmost fraction of the division problem unchanged
- Multiply by the reciprocal of the rightmost fraction
- Simplify each fraction
- Cross cancel any common factors among all numerators and denominators
- Set up the answer:
- Numerator: Find the product of all numerators
- Denominator: Find the product of all denominators
- Attach the correct sign to the answer
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