Learning Enhancement Team
Worksheet:
Cancelling Down
Fractions
This worksheet has questions about cancelling down fractions. You can use either the
highest common factor (HCF) of numerator and denominator or you can express the
numerator and denominator in prime factor form and the cancel your answer down.
Model solutions to
this sheet
1.
Cancelling Down
Fractions study guide
Simplify the following fractions by cancelling them down.
a)
4
8
b)
6
8
c)
8
8
d)
12
8
e)
44
8
f)
5
15
g)
44
11
h)
12
36
i)
21
77
j)
17
19
c)
210
240
d)
162
222
e)
144
228
570
585
j)
725
1100
2. Simplify the following fractions.
a)
50
120
b)
165
210
f)
280
744
g)
390
h)
1530
420
i)
1260
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