Question

In an orchestra, there are 42 woodwind players to 56 brass is ratio of woodwinds to brass written as a fraction in simplest form

Answer 1

$\frac{42}{56} = \frac{6}{8} = \frac{3}{4}$

I could do that because both numbers are divisible by 7, and then they are divisible by 2. You could also have divided them by 14, but I think it's easier to do and explain this way.