What is 4/8 equivalent to?

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What is 4/8 equivalent to?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-09T08:45:10

$\frac{4}{8} \equiv \frac{1}{2}$ $4/8-=1/2$

Explanation:

Notice that you can split 8 into 2 lots of 4 $\to 4 + 4 = 8$ $->4+4=8$ This means that the top number can be divided by the bottom number and get a whole number answer.

So write $\frac{4}{8} as \frac{4 \div 4}{8 \div 4} = \frac{1}{2}$ $4/8" as "(4-:4)/(8-:4) = 1/2$

so $\frac{4}{8} \equiv \frac{1}{2}$ $4/8-=1/2" "$ the $\equiv$ $-=$ means equivalent to

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