Question

How do you simplify 28 over 56

Answer 1

Easiest way is to see that they are both even so we can divide by two.

We can 14/28

Again, both even so divide by another 2 and we get 7/14

7 goes into 14 two times so the answer is 1/2.

Obviously, we could have got that from the start but to some people its not as obvious