Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #14111: Multiplying fractions - Incorrect need for simplification
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-02-18 04:38:11+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, other, xp

Reporter: jonsploder@hotmail.com

Hi, I'd just like to say that I don't really think that 16/-21 should be wrong, (you say that it can simplify to -16/21 in multiplying fractions), but there are the same amount of terms, so it's really not simplifying it. If I'm wrong please show me the video that explains this.

[multiplying_fractions.html?seed=162&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/multiplying_fractions.html?seed=162&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/multiplying_fractions.html?seed=162&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2216%2F-21%5C%22%22%2C27%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5C%22-16%2F21%5C%22%22%2C11%5D%5D)

["16/-21","-16/21"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11

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