Simplifying a ratio

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1
Write the ratio 24 : 15 in its simplest form.
2
Write the ratio 24 : 14 in its simplest form.
3
Write the ratio 42 : 36 in its simplest form.
4
Write the ratio 54 : 54 in its simplest form.
5
Write the ratio 70 : 28 in its simplest form.
6
Write the ratio 96 : 64 in its simplest form.
7
Write the ratio 16 : 8 in its simplest form.
8
Write the ratio 88 : 88 in its simplest form.
9
Write the ratio 36 : 21 in its simplest form.
10
Write the ratio 27 : 12 in its simplest form.
11
Write the ratio 27 : 33 in its simplest form.
12
Write the ratio 72 : 80 in its simplest form.
13
Write the ratio 44 : 28 in its simplest form.
14
Write the ratio 12 : 30 in its simplest form.
15
Write the ratio 14 : 8 in its simplest form.
16
Write the ratio 12 : 27 in its simplest form.
17
Write the ratio 6 : 24 in its simplest form.
18
Write the ratio 12 : 14 in its simplest form.
19
Write the ratio 72 : 45 in its simplest form.
20
Write the ratio 24 : 48 in its simplest form.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 4 to 108.
82% of them share a factor larger than three.
18% of them share a small factor.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the common factor was taken away from both sides; a ratio is simplified by dividing both sides, not by subtracting.
Answers are a ratio in its simplest form, written like 3 : 4.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 199 different ones, 83% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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