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# JFractionLab - Help

## Dividing fractions or numbers by fractions

### Explanation:

When dividing you can ask yourself:
"How often can you put 7 into 35?"-> "Five times!"
This is the same question we have to ask, when dividing fractions!

| How often can you put a quarter in a half? Twice!
| How often can you put a half into a quarter? You can only put part of it in. Only half of it fits.
| Howoften can you put 3 Fourteenths into 6 sevenths? You can count this in the same way as we did above. To count You can make it simpler!

#### To divide, you turn the second fraction upside down and then you multiply!

### Steps:

- Turn the second fraction upside down.
- Multiply the numerators
- Multiply the denominators
- Reduce if necessary

### A step by step example:

This is what it would look like in the JFractionLab.
Step 1:
Step 2:
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