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Reduce to lowest terms 24/36

User AnkitSomani
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To reduce to the lowest terms we notice that:


(24)/(36)=(6\cdot4)/(6\cdot6)=(6\cdot2\cdot2)/(6\cdot2\cdot3)

now, we can eliminate the 6 and 2 that repeat in the numerator and denominator, thereforew the fraction in lowest terms is:


(2)/(3)

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