How to Reduce Fractions to Lowest Term
Reducing fractions to their lowest terms is all about removing every common factor between the numerator and the denominator.
Reducing fractions to their lowest terms is all about removing every common factor between the numerator and the denominator.
Let's see this using 12/16.
A common factor to 12 and 16 is 2;
so removing 2 from 12/16 yields
6/8.
Again, 2 is common to both 6 and 8;
removing it yields 3/4.
We stop when nothing else is common (1 does not count).
Create a new class file;
call it LowestTerm.
Type out the adjoining C++ algorithm that reduces a fraction to its lowest term.
Note: You can comment out the ImproperToMixed C++ object code in the main class from the previous lesson or simply continue from where it stopped.
Feel free to try out your own numerator and denominator.