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A basketball player makes 78% of her free throws. What is that as a fraction in simplest form?

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The simplest form is 3/4
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78 percent is 78/100. The obvious way to simplify this is divide both numbers by 2 bc they’re both even to get 39/50. Because 50 is only divisible by 2, 5, 10, and 25, which are none of the factors in 39, that’s the simplest fraction.
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