Question

umm i need help on my math reducing fractions Im new to them and i dont understand it at all, Btw im in 5th grade not middle school it wont let me change it

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} (2)/(10)\text{ } \\ \text{the first step is looking for the largest common }factor\text{ betw}en\text{ the two numbers, 2 and 10} \end{gathered}`

since the smallest number is 2, and 2 can go into itself and 2 also can go into 10, that is the largest common number

`(2)/(10)/\text{ }(2)/(2)`
`\begin{gathered} 2\text{ divided by 2 = 1} \\ 10\text{ divided by 2 =5} \end{gathered}`

We can not make the number go any smaller since any number divied by one will equal itself

so that means

`(2)/(10)\text{ reduced is }(1)/(5)`