SOLUTION: how do you find the greatest common denominator for numeric fractions, in order to reduce them?

Question 122519: how do you find the greatest common denominator for numeric fractions, in order to reduce them?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Reducing fractions, simplify, and reduce to the lowest terms all means to factors}}} between the nominator and the denominator.
Definition: The

or
of two (or more) numbers the of the the

.
If you wanted to find the greatest common factor of, for example, and , you would express both as
products of their prime factors, and look for factors common to both:

There are two and one to both numbers, so is the " " of and .
once you have , you divide the nominator and the denominator in order to reduce.
example:

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