Okay, so today I was messing around with this fraction, 343/252. I wanted to see if I could make it simpler, you know, reduce it to its lowest terms. First, I tried to find a common number that could divide both 343 and 252. I quickly found out 7 is a common divisor.
I divided both the top and bottom by 7. So, 343 divided by 7 is 49, and 252 divided by 7 is 36. Boom! Now I have 49/36. It looks much cleaner now, right?
Then I thought, “Can I simplify this new fraction, 49/36, even more?” I tried to find a common factor for both 49 and 36, but it turns out there’s nothing that divides both of them evenly other than 1. So, 49/36 is the simplest form we can get.
Here’s the process I did step by step:
- Step 1: I saw the fraction 343/252.
- Step 2: I divided both 343 and 252 by 7 to get 49/36.
- Step 3: I checked if 49/36 could be simplified further, but it couldn’t.
So, in the end, I found that 343/252 simplified to its lowest terms is 49/36. And this is just one way to represent the fraction, it’s the same value as the original one, just in a much simpler way. I had some fun playing with these numbers today!