Question

In which sentence is the fraction written correctly?

A.
The family took one-third of the toys to the donation center.

B.
We ate one-half of the pizza for dinner.

C.
Is 0.25 cup of melted butter the same as one-fourth cup of melted butter?

Answer 1

i am not sure on this one

Answer 2

i know c is wrong

Answer 3

A and B look similar

Answer 4

Okay, remember what we all said last time?

Answer 5

so it is either a or b, i just can not decided

Answer 6

together like friends

Answer 7

but a and b do that

Answer 8

Wait... with these, anything 1 and under has a singular noun following it.
EX:
I have 0.999999 piece of pie left. Want the slither?

Answer 9

so a? i know c is wrong...

Answer 10

I think its A. Not supposed to give out direct answers but I cant explain this sorry

Answer 11

so it has got to be b then...

Answer 12

Wait, yeah maybe...

Answer 13

u r thinking it is a?

Answer 14

Research...

Answer 15

ok

Answer 16

Date: 01/20/2004 at 13:15:46
From: Doctor Peterson
Subject: Re: Writing fractions in word form

Hi, Colleen.

I usually reserve the hyphen for use in keeping the name of the
denominator together. For example,

1/5 = one fifth

1/25 = one twenty-fifth

2/100,000 = two hundred-thousandths

200/1000 = two hundred thousandths

But you will also see hyphens within numbers when the entire number
is used in certain special settings:

One third of a piece

A one-third share

A hundred thousand dollars

A hundred-thousand-dollar income


http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/64567.html

Answer 17

does this mean it is a?

Answer 18

One more to see... I think so, but this might be okay.

Hyphens and Spelled-out Fractions

Fractions should always be hyphenated when they are adjectives or adverbs, as in They got a one-third share and The money is three-quarters gone. Opinions differ on whether they should be hyphenated when they are nouns, as in They got one-third of the money. By standard rules of hyphenation, there is no reason to hyphenate them; they are merely noun compounds formed of adjective + noun.

However, the hyphen is "heard" -- we do not pronounce the elements of such compounds as distinct words but slur them together--and omission of the hyphen could conceivably mislead: I used to save all of my change in a bucket, but I've spent three quarters of it. We suggest hyphenating fractions routinely. One can think of the hyphen as representing the division bar in a fraction in figures.

The horse rounded the track five and three-quarters times. Adjectival compounds of a whole number and a fraction are not hyphenated throughout unless they are complicated by another word, as in The horse fell at the one-and-one-quarter-mile mark.

Answer 19

so it has got to be a then, i am going with that @TinyLittleHelper , u r a life saver!

Answer 20

Well, thanks; I kinda guessed with the research. Google comes in handy! :)