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How do you know that a fraction is in its lowest term?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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When you can no longer find the a common factor between the numerator and the denominator. This can be done by prime factorization (easy to understand, but laborious), or by Euclid's Algorithm, which is much faster (especially for larger numbers).

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If the GCF of the numerator and denominator is 1, the fraction is in its simplest form.

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