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sure brought to you by reduced fractions Hey the best

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things can come in Reduce packages alright Produced the fraction

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fifty for ninety nine's chair and here the potential answers

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Okay so this question simply wants us to take the

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fraction fifty for over ninety nine and reduce it as

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much as possible Like the biggest loser we could spend

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a bunch time trying to figure out what the largest

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number is that we can divide out of both the

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numerator and denominator But we're actually fans the shortcuts around

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here You should see how little time and takes us

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to finish a marathon Yeah any way we can start

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by dividing out a very small number that we feel

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confident divides into both numbers just to make the thing

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a bit more manageable Well it certainly looks like three

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is a factor of ninety nine which indeed it is

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So does it go evenly into fifty for you Bet

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if we divide top and bottom by three we get

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eighteen over thirty three Oh both Numbers are still divisible

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by 3 so let's do it again and we get

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six over eleven which is answered choice See And we're

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done But there's extra credit here If you had recognized

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right off the bat that both fifty four and ninety

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nine are divisible by nine Well then more power to

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you and there's a little trick here five plus four

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right there equals nine which is visible by three and

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nine plus nine is eighteen which is visible by three

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and well that's Just another trick for you So you

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would have saved yourself an extra couple of seconds if

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you'd followed our path there But well we hope you 00:01:41.696 --> [endTime] made the most of it

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