Enrichment: Daily Math Problem 4/6/20

4/6/2020

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Here is today's daily enrichment math problem. Find the value in simplest form.

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Raghav

4/6/2020 02:42:44 pm

11/20

Mr. Bowen

4/6/2020 07:19:48 pm

Can you explain how you solved it? Please tell me you did some simplifying!

Korbyn

4/7/2020 02:15:04 pm

I noticed the denominators are all perfect squares and the previous numerator is divisible by the square route of the next denominator, but I don’t know what to do from there.

Mr. Bowen

4/8/2020 07:33:30 am

That is a great observation, Korbyn. You can use what you noticed to rewrite the numerators and denominators as products of those factors. Then, you can start pulling out factors to simplify. I am going to make a new video explaining this problem. For now, you can learn more about how to multiply fractions and mixed numbers (and do something called cross simplifying) in this very exciting video:

https://youtu.be/12D--p-AKA4

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