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Trail Teamwork My daughter needs help with Math Chapter 8 Performance Task on dividing fractions. Can you help her??

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The rule for dividing fractions is "invert and multiply." What you invert is the denominator fraction.

Example: (1/3) / (4/5) = (1/3)Ă—(5/4) . . . . . the denominator 4/5 has been inverted to 5/4 and is now a multiplier.

All the rest of the rules for fractions are unaltered--conversion from mixed numbers to improper fractions, addition and subtraction--they're all the same.
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