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document.write( "What do I do next? Please explain if you can! Thanks so very much!
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document.write( "Your error is in thinking that you are necessarily reducing the \r\n" );
document.write( "fractions to lowest terms. Instead think of it as making the \r\n" );
document.write( "numerators 1. Sometimes it amounts to reducing the fraction\r\n" );
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document.write( "Do it this way instead. Go back to:\r\n" );
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document.write( "multiplying top and bottom of the first fraction by\r\n" );
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document.write( "top and bottom by 
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document.write( "Now cancel and that leaves just 1 understood on top:\r\n" );
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document.write( "And we only need to reduce the fractions on the bottom\r\n" );
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document.write( "The larger denominator is 
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document.write( "we compare the above to:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Eccentricity of an ellipse = 
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document.write( "Eccentricity of this elipse = 
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