Question

Reduce to lowest terms 24/36

Answer 1

To reduce to the lowest terms we notice that:

`(24)/(36)=(6\cdot4)/(6\cdot6)=(6\cdot2\cdot2)/(6\cdot2\cdot3)`

now, we can eliminate the 6 and 2 that repeat in the numerator and denominator, thereforew the fraction in lowest terms is:

`(2)/(3)`