Question

There are 9 roses in a vase . Of the 9 roses, 6 are red and the rest are yellow.What fraction of the roses are red?

Answer 1

reduce 6/9 to lowest terms

Answer 2

So you could say that 6/9 of the roses are red

or

you could figure out the simplified fraction:

So we know that the word problem can be answered by 6/9 so we have to figure out what 6/9 is equal to

So in order to do that we have to figure out the prime factors of 6 and 9

6 = 2x3
9 = 3x3
So we can see that on the right the 3s match that means you can cancel them out

6 = 2
9 = 3
So that means 6/9 is equal 2/3

hope this makes sense, but if it doesn't you can look up simplified fractions, there are tons of great YouTube videos about it :)