"Reduced to lowest terms" means the greatest common divisor of numerator and denominator is 1. Otherwise, each can be divided by the greatest common divisor to reduce the fraction to lower terms.
"Reducing a fraction to its lowest terms means the only factor the numerator and denominator have in common is 1. Reducing a fraction to its lowest terms also results in an equivalent fraction."
5/1 cakes shared by 6/1 people. To divide, we can freeze flip and multiply the fractions to get to 5/1 * 1/6 = 5/6 cakes per person. Let me know if this helps.