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When the numerator and denominator have only 1 as a common factor

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A fraction in which the greatest common factor of the numerator and the denominator is 1 is known as a reduced, or simplified, fraction. Quite often I have also heard this called a fraction in its lowest terms. This just means that the fraction has been reduced
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then it is in simplest form and they are both prime
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