How do you simplify $2/3 div 1/2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-30T18:27:28

$2/3-:1/2=4/3$

When we divide a fraction say $a/b$ by another fraction say $c/d$ .

this is equivalent to multiplying $a/b$ by multiplicative inverse of $c/d$ i.e. $d/c$

Hence $2/3-:1/2=2/3xx2/1=(2xx2)/(3xx1)=4/3$

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