for some reason my homework doesn't enjoy simplified fractions. Yet simplified fractions is all my calculator gives me. How can I "unsimplify" -6 1/5?

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anonymous · Answer

-6 and 1/5.....is that what you're trying to unsimplify?

anonymous · Answer

yep

anonymous · Answer

If that's what you're trying to unsimplify, it's -31/5. But that's an improper fraction.

anonymous · Answer

I've never heard of "unsimplification". The opposite of simplification is expansion.

anonymous · Answer

thanks for the help. I was not sure of the term for what I was asking.

anonymous · Answer

is that really all?

anonymous · Answer

yep, we are working on slope intercept, and for some reason the computer refuses to take simplified fractions.

anonymous · Answer

Okay, it refuses to accept improper fractions or mixed numbers?

anonymous · Answer

normally, a computer will only understand improper fractions.

anonymous · Answer

It will not recognize a mixed number.

anonymous · Answer

so you have to convert.

anonymous · Answer

yep so it seems. thanks for the help, I had the right expansion just mixed something else up in the equation in the first place.

amistre64 · Answer

5' 1/3 converts to:  [5(3)+1] over 3 = 16/3  and such

anonymous · Answer

I hope you're still here kdsim

amistre64 · Answer

-6' 1/5  is all negative so your right; -31/5

anonymous · Answer

Wow

anonymous · Answer

typo

amistre64 · Answer

think of it as -(6' 1/5)

anonymous · Answer

reading thanks. amistre the equation you provided really helps for future problems

amistre64 · Answer

glad to help :)

anonymous · Answer

Yeah, that's my bad, I failed to explain the method...

anonymous · Answer

alright all im back to my homework, less this takes me another hour!

anonymous · Answer

amistre64, why is it so slow tonight?

amistre64 · Answer

maybe we banned everyone ;)

anonymous · Answer

Really?