Question

A division problem is shown below.

4 1/3÷ 5 1/6

The reciprocal of a fraction must be found to solve the problem. What is the reciprocal fraction that should be used? Use the / symbol to write your fraction.

Answer 1

This is how you divide fractions

a/b ÷ c/d

= a/b * d/c

You can change the division to multiplication by finding the reciprocal of the second fraction. You do not find the reciprocal of the first fraction.

To find your answer, you need to first convert the second fraction into an improper fraction. Do you know how to do this?
Then you take the reciprocal of it.

The reciprocal of a/b is b/a