Simplify the operation
Reduce (simplify) the fractions to their lowest terms equivalents:
- To reduce a fraction to the lowest terms equivalent: divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common factor, GCF.
The fraction: 10,105/10,188
10,105/10,188 is already reduced to the lowest terms.
The numerator and denominator have no common prime factors:
- 10,105 = 5 × 43 × 47
- 10,188 = 22 × 32 × 283
- GCF (10,105; 10,188) = 1
The fraction: 10,109/10,193
10,109/10,193 is already reduced to the lowest terms.
The numerator and denominator have no common prime factors:
- 10,109 = 11 × 919
- 10,193 is a prime number.
- GCF (10,109; 10,193) = 1
Calculate the common numerator
The common numerator is nothing else than the least common multiple (LCM) of the numerators of the fractions.
To calculate the LCM, we need the prime factorization of the numerators:
10,105 = 5 × 43 × 47
10,109 = 11 × 919
Multiply all the unique prime factors: if there are repeating prime factors we only take them once, and only the ones having the highest exponent (the highest powers).
LCM (10105, 10109) = 5 × 11 × 43 × 47 × 919 = 102,151,445
Calculate the expanding number of each fraction:
Divide the LCM by the numerator of each fraction.
10,105/10,188 ⟶ 102,151,445 ÷ 10,105 = (5 × 11 × 43 × 47 × 919) ÷ (5 × 43 × 47) = 10,109
10,109/10,193 ⟶ 102,151,445 ÷ 10,109 = (5 × 11 × 43 × 47 × 919) ÷ (11 × 919) = 10,105
Make the numerators of the fractions the same:
- Expand each fraction: multiply both its numerator and denominator by its corresponding expanding number, calculated above.
- This way all the fractions will have the same numerator:
10,105/10,188 = (10,109 × 10,105)/(10,109 × 10,188) = 102,151,445/102,990,492
10,109/10,193 = (10,105 × 10,109)/(10,105 × 10,193) = 102,151,445/103,000,265