Fractions: Finding Lowest Terms

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Demonstration of cancelling down a fraction to its lowest terms. Single step examples using the 3 and 7 times table. How to cancel fractions with larger numbers in several steps. How to use the prime factors of the numerator and denominator to cancel large fractions.

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