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Can you break down the numerator and denominator into factors?
-7b
First, see that the denominator cannot be factored. However, 7ab in the numerator can be broken into the factors 7, a, and b. Since a is the common value between the numerator and the denominator, we can reduce the fraction by this value. - 7ab/a ⇒ - 7b/1 Note that a number divided by 1 is the number itself, so we can write our final expression. - 7b/1 ⇒ - 7b