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Training Manual Audit: Simplifying Multi-Stage Efficiency Factors
You are working as a Quality Assurance Auditor at a logistics firm. While reviewing a draft of a new training manual for inventory coordinators, you notice a section explaining how to simplify compounded route efficiency factors. The manual presents the following calculation:
To make this manual clear and educational for new hires, you decide to write a short explanatory note for the training coordinator. In your note, recall and explain the mathematical terms and properties used to simplify this calculation mentally without doing any long multiplication.
Specifically, your response must:
- Name and state the mathematical property that allows us to rearrange the order of the fractions to get: .
- Recall the mathematical term for the relationship between the fractions and , and state what their product is.
- Identify the mathematical property that explains why multiplying the remaining factor, , by that product yields .
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