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The standard form of -36/34

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-36/34 the answer will be -18/17
The standard form of -36/34-example-1
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Assuming that you mean "simplified form", we have to cancel every common divisor of both numerator and denumerator.

36 is factored as
2^2\cdot 3^2

34 is factored as
2\cdot 17

So, the two numbers only have a factor 2 in common, meaning that the simplified form of this fraction is


-(18)/(17)

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