<span>A fraction in which the greatest common factor of the numerator and the denominator is 1 is known as a reduced, or simplified, fraction. Quite often I have also heard this called a fraction in its lowest terms. This just means that the fraction has been reduced</span>
The shortest distance from a point to a straight line is the
measurement of the line segment which connects the point to the straight line.
This line segment should be perpendicular to the line and is thus called the
perpendicular distance.
