Question

can you write 116th as a proper fraction

Answer 1

what is a "proper" fraction?

Answer 2

1/16 ?

Answer 3

No.

A proper fraction is a fraction where the numerator (the top number) is less than the denominator (the bottom number).

116th is an ordinal number.

Ordinal Number. A number that tells the position of something in a list. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.

116 is a cardinal number.

Cardinal numbers (or cardinals) are numbers that say how many of something there are, such as one, two, three, four, five.

A Nominal Number is a number used only as a name, or to identify something (not as an actual value or position) such as the number on the back of a footballer ("8").

A proper fraction is a fraction where the numerator (the top number) is less than the denominator (the bottom number).

Example: 1/4 (one quarter) and 5/6 (five sixths) are proper fractions.

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