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You cancel out whenever you have the same factor on both the top and bottom of a fraction. (These are called the numerator and denominator, respectively.)

For example:

18/42 = (6 x 3)/(6 x 7).

So I would cancel out the 6's.

So 18/42 = 3/7.

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