I wouldn’t trust the links to a “photo” like the people in the comments said. If you give me the equation of the line the question is taking about I could solve it for you.
Since you want to cancel something out, the book makes the 24 3 times eight so that both of the threes can be canceled out

Divide both the numerator and denominator by 9 to get;

Convert the improper fraction to a mixed number;
14 10/8 is equal to 15 2/8 which cnman simplify down to 15 1/4. So, the simplest you can get is 15 1/4. I hope this helps!