What is 5 over 20 in lowest terms?

Answer 1

When you place five over twenty, it can be reduced to one over four, or one fourth.
In this case, the dividend is five and the divisor is twenty.
When the dividend is placed over the divisor, with a horizontal line separating the two, it creates a fraction. In order to reduce the fraction to its lowest common denominator, you divide the divisor by the dividend, so when you divide twenty by five, the result is four for the divisor and one for the dividend, which yields one over four, or one fourth. This can also be shown as twenty five percent (25%) since twenty five is one fourth of one hundred.