Question

Reduce the following fractions to simplest form:

$\frac{24}{144}$

Answer 1

To reduce a fraction to its simplest form, we divide both numerator and denominator by their GCF..

$$\begin{gathered} \frac{24}{144}=\frac{24÷2}{144÷2}=\frac{12}{72} \\ =\frac{12÷12}{72÷12}=\frac{1}{6} \end{gathered}$$6855

Hence the simplest form of $\frac{24}{144}$ will be $\frac{1}{6}$ .