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Reduce 42/17 to lowest terms

42/17 is already in the simplest form. It can be written as 2.470588 in decimal form (rounded to 6 decimal places).

Steps to simplifying fractions

  1. Find the GCD (or HCF) of numerator and denominator
    GCD of 42 and 17 is 1
  2. Divide both the numerator and denominator by the GCD
    42 ÷ 1/17 ÷ 1
  3. Reduced fraction: 42/17
    Therefore, 42/17 simplified to lowest terms is 42/17.

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