We have been given an expression
. We are asked to factor the given expression by grouping.
First of all, we will make two groups of our expression as:

Now we will factor of greatest common factor from each group.


Now we will factor out common terms
as:

Therefore, the factorized form of our given expression would be
.
Forgive me if this is wrong. I haven't done stat in a year, but comment if you need clarification!
If the number on the bottom of the fraction is 8 times the size
of the number on top, then the fraction is equal to 1/8 .
Examples:
100 / 800
20 / 160
8 / 64