A few days ago
Cps

What is ‘cancellation’?

I need to know this for my maths homework, our teacher didn’t explain it really well.

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A few days ago
Sarah C

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Cancellation refers to removing the same thing from opposite sides of a mathematical expression.

Examples: 50/70 is 5/7 because you can the 10’s cancel each other out; A x 2 =B x 2 can be simplified to A = B because the 2’s cancel each other out. This is sometimes expressed as “I canceled out the 10’s and have 5 over 7.”

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