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Reduce to the lowest terms by canceling -14/9 times -3/7

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Answer:

2/3

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the below;


(-14)/(9)*((-3))/(7)

We can see from the above that 9 is divisible by 3 and that 14 is divisible by 7, let's go ahead and reduce to the lowest term as shown below;


(-14)/(9)*((-3))/(7)=(-2)/(3)*((-1))/(1)=(2)/(3)

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