Fractions: A number in the form where a and b are whole numbers and , are called fractions.

Addition of Fraction:

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  For Example:

Subtraction of Fraction:

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  For Example:

Multiplication of Fraction:

• The product of two fractions

  For Example: Multiply and

Points to Remember:

• The multiplication of a fraction number by 1 gives the fraction number itself.
• The multiplication of a fractional number by zero (0) gives zero (0).
• A whole number a fractional number the whole number the multiplicative inverse of the divisor.

Simplification of different portions within brackets is done in the following order:

• Simplify the portion within first brackets .
• Then simplify the portion within second bracket .
• Then simplify the portion within the third bracket .

The remaining portion of sum is simplified in the order: ‘of’, , , , on the whole, the order in which simplification is to be done is:

• Brackets of division multiplication addition subtraction
• This order can be remembered as BODMAS.