ARGH!!!!Maths homework....

[jayzmummy]

help needed for Simplest Forms????

What is the simplest form of 38/100????
Is it 19/50????

Yes that's right

thank you....I hated maths at school and I hate it even more now!!!!!!

Ok...so whats the simplest form of 165/100???
is it 33/50
or 1 13/50
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33/20

Each divided by 5 , that is

I would have thought it would be 33/20 but i am not very good.

Thanks.....wish I hadnt skipped so many maths lessons to go round the bike shed for a fag!!

Dh said tonight that he feels really dim when Ds1 asks for help with his homework and we cant do it!!!!! I feel like the dimmer of the two....poor Ds1 having nit wits for parents!!!

Have a look at your local FE college. Some of them run 'Help your child with Maths/English' courses for parents who feel they could do with a refresher/don't reember ever learning it/it this way.

To change a fraction to it's simplest form you:

1. Work out what the factors (numbers that multiply together) are of both the top and the bottom part. So for the top, 38, the factors are 2 and 19 (2x19=38) and for the bottom 100, the factors are 2 and 50, (2x50=100) 4 and 25 (4x25=100), 5 and 20 (5x20=100) etc.

2. Look for the higherst factor on both sides that is the same. In this example it is 2 because 2 is a factor of 38 and also a factor of 100.

3. Divide both the top and bottom of the fraction by the highest common factor. 38 divided by 2 is 19 (that goes on top of the fraction) and 100 divided by 2 is 50 (this goes on the bottom)

Hey presto: 19/50