B > Equivalent Fractions In Example 1(a) we wrote 10 as “?. Can you find other ways of writing 10 as a fraction? Here are some: 10_10x2_ 20 We Ig 2 _10_10x3_ 30 = xe 3 and 19 = 10 = 0x4 _ 40 1 1x44 Note that } = 1,} = 1, and j= 1. As you can see, the fraction '? is equivalent to (has the same value as) many other fractions. We can always obtain other fractions equivalent to any given fraction by multiplying the numerator and denominator of the original fraction by the same nonzero number, a process called building up the fraction. This is the same as multiplying the fraction by 1, where | is written as 3, 3, 4, and so on. For example, 3_3X2_6 5 5x2. 10