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16 ARITHMETIC.
(33) To reduce a fraction to its lowest terms means to
change its form without changing its value. In order to do
this, we must divide both numerator and denominator by
the same number until we can no longer find any number
(except 1) which will divide both of these terms without
a remainder.
4
To reduce the fraction — to
o
its lowest terms we divide
both numerator and
1
denominator by
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4, and obtain as
4—4
a
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'
result the fraction — . Thus,
- = =
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