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Please explain the third to last step and how worked denominator in last step. Thanks

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In the third step, the numerator comes from:

while the denominator comes from:

To get to the fourth step we cross-multiply from the third step: 

and get (pay attention that 10 is written as 2*5, and 4 is written as 2*2):

Next, we divide the numerator and denominator by  and get:

and finally, after doing the calculations, we arrive to the solution:

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