<span>We can reduce this fraction, 875 / 1000 to lowest terms by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 125 ; </span><span>Why divide by 125? 125 Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of the numbers 875 and 1000. So, this fraction reduced to lowest terms is 7 / 8 ; In the same way, 35 / 100 is reduced to lowest terms as 7 / 20 ;</span>
When you are looking for a unit rate in a graph you want to know how much the dependent (y) variable will increase by when the independent (x) variable is increased by one
