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If you take a common factor and write it outside of the parentheses (which you may need to add), that's called "factoring" or "factorizing". If you have a common factor in the numerator and denominator of an expression, you can just eliminate both; that's often referred to as "simplifying".

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It is called simplifying or reducing.

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