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You NEVER "reduce" a fraction into a "smaller fraction". That would change its value.

The whole idea that runs through everything you do in math is that you only change

the way something looks, but you never change the size of the real number that it

represents.

17/12 can't be reduced to any other fraction with lower terms. But if you want to,

you can write it as 15/12 instead. That doesn't change anything. The two forms are

still exactly the same number.

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