Question

writing an improper fraction as a mix or whole number

Answer 1

Well, the best way to do it is with examples. Ready?

Answer 2

yep

Answer 3

Awesome. Here's an example: 1.5

Answer 4

If you say it out loud, it's "One and one half", right?

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

So, what two numbers are we basically adding to make that?

Answer 7

?

Answer 8

Read it out loud. :P

Answer 9

reminder: "If you say it out loud, it's "One and one half", right?"
So.... what is the obvious answer for the two numbers that we are adding?

Answer 10

sorry Im terrilbe in math have to take algera class, tyring to work on cpt bok for practice been out of school a long time
one and one half

Answer 11

Don't worry about it :) That's why I'm here.

And yeah, it's 1 and a half, you're right! Now, the slightly tricky part: what does the fraction for "one half" look like?

Answer 12

bless you

Answer 13

Thanks ^_^

Answer 14

1/2

Answer 15

Perfect!

So here's what we have to do:
1 + 1/2

Now here's the problem: We can't add the two because the denominators are different. How do we turn the 1 into a fraction that equals 1?

Hint: Remember that fraction is division. So 6/2 means "six divided by 2". So 6/2 would equal 3.

What we need is "something over 2 equals 1" What is this 'something' that we need?

Answer 16

1

Answer 17

Well, if we put 1 on top of 2, we get one half. We need ?/2 = 1.

What should the ? be to get 1?

Answer 18

2

Answer 19

or 4

Answer 20

Perfect!
So we would rewrite the equation as:

2/2 + 1/2 =

Do you remember how to add fractions?

Answer 21

ok

Answer 22

It's actually 2. If you had 4/2, you'd be left with 4/2 = 2

But we needed 1.

Answer 23

a little

Answer 24

I just want to double check: You know *why* we did 2/2, right?

Answer 25

got some on my own

Answer 26

whole number

Answer 27

Yup. But you know why we wanted to get a fraction that gave us 1 instead of, say, 2 or 3?

Answer 28

nope

Answer 29

how about this 37/5

Answer 30

Well, let's get the easy example done first, before we go to harder stuff.

Answer 31

So we had 1.5, which we said is equal to "one plus a half"
We know that the "plus a half" is equal to 1/2.
Now, we needed something with the denominator of 1/2.

What is the denominator of 1/2?

Answer 32

Gave up? :/