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The art teacher made an assignment for the class to create a map of their neighborhood.

Margie colored in the distance from her best friend's house to her house and wrote on the map that the distance was of a mile.

Which of the following distances are the same as of a mile?

63/100 of a mile
9/7 of a mile
21/33 of a mile
7/9 of a mile
9/11 of a mile
7/11 of a mile
PICK THE ONES THAT ARE RIGHT.

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21/33 and 7/11 are same fraction of a mile.

Look for fractions that have a common multiple in the numerator and denominator.

The only one that meets this condition is 21/33.

Divide both the numerator and denominator by 3, and you find that

21/33 = 7/11

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