Multiplying Fractions: Cancelling and Cross-Cancelling

Learn how to simplify fraction multiplications before you multiply. This is frequently called cancelling or cross-cancelling. It is an alternate strategy to in place of simplifying your fraction to lowest terms. A lot of multiplying fraction problems can be cancelled out but not all of them.

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[johnellison]

Hello. I'm an adult learner in my 50s rediscovering maths. Thanks for making this video. It has made fractions so much easier to work with. 😃

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im in gr 11 17 years old and this woman helped with something iv been struggling with since gr6 now Im in gr11 2 weeka s away from exams

[darleneortiz]

That makes perfect sense, I completely blanked out on my homework! Thank you so much!

[ninaarchp]

Wait...doesn't u still have to cancel 4? And then it'll be 2? Im not sure its just my opinion tho...

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[akshajaggarwal]

Nice explaination now in school I don't have to put a big lecture into my work I can now just use the trick and my teacher cannot even say I didnt show my work

[devaylamorningstar]

Thank goodness u asked my teacher if I did my fractions wrong!

[mileynarose]

*I could not understand my homework page so i got really frustrated and wanted to cry but when i found this video i understood a lot and got an A-*





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[marypohlman]

I would have loved to use this, but you talked way to fast!

[tokyo_ghoul_]

I couldn't even do my homework correctly but thanks to you!!!

[xdnibba]

Ty so much I have a test tomorrow and I didn't understand how to crosscancel

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[adrienburgerham]

thx you so much i was saying up doing this and when I saw this video I got a b+