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how do I make these ratios into simplest form? 3/8 , 2/5?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    3/8 and 2/5 are in simplist form.

    You can no longer simplify once you hit prime numbers. 3 in the first one, and 5 in the second one are prime, so you can't simplify any farther.

    3 and 8 share no common factor, and neither do 2 and 5.

  • 1 decade ago

    They already are in their simplest form.

  • 1 decade ago

    they cant be reduce any further so I think they are already in their simplist form

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