Can someone simplify these fractions. simplify 18/42 simplify 15/40

Apackage of bacon holds 15 strips of bacon. the pancake house uses 17 packages of bacon in the morning and 21 packages in the afternoon. how many more strips were used in the afternoon than the morning?

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?

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