In this article, we will teach you the basics of everything you need to know about mixed numbers.
If you wish to delve deeper into a specific topic, you can access the corresponding extensive article.
In this article, we will teach you the basics of everything you need to know about mixed numbers.
If you wish to delve deeper into a specific topic, you can access the corresponding extensive article.
A fraction that is greater than 1 is a fraction whose numerator is larger than its denominator, this type of fractions can be converted into mixed numbers.
It is important that we remember similar topics:
Multiply the whole number by the denominator.
To the obtained product, add the numerator. The final result will be the new numerator.
Nothing is changed in the denominator.
The whole number is written in the numerator and the 1 in the denominator.
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\( 8\times\frac{5}{9}= \)
To add and subtract mixed numbers, we will act as follows:
We will convert mixed numbers into fractions - fractions with numerator and denominator that do not have whole numbers.
We will find a common denominator (usually by multiplying the denominators).
We will add or subtract only the numerators. The denominator will be written only once in the final result.
We will solve the multiplication of an integer by a fraction and by a mixed number in the following way:
\( 3\times\frac{8}{12}= \)
\( 10\times\frac{7}{9}= \)
\( 7\times\frac{6}{8}= \)
We will convert the whole numbers and mixed numbers to fractions and rewrite the exercise.
We will multiply the numerators and the denominators separately.
The product of the numerators will be written in the new numerator.
The product of the denominators will be written in the new denominator.
Solve:
\( 7\times\frac{3}{8}= \)
\( 8\times\frac{1}{2}= \)
\( 3\times\frac{6}{7}= \)
We will convert mixed numbers to fractions and rewrite the exercise.
We will multiply the numerators and the denominators separately.
The product of the numerators will be written in the new numerator.
The product of the denominators will be written in the new denominator.
โข The commutative property works - We can change the order of the fractions within the exercise without altering the result.
We will convert mixed numbers to fractions and rewrite the exercise.
We will convert the division into multiplication and swap between the numerator and the denominator in the second fraction.
We will solve by multiplying numerator by numerator and denominator by denominator.
\( 7\times\frac{2}{5}= \)
\( 6\times\frac{3}{4}= \)
\( 2\times\frac{5}{7}= \)
We will convert the division into multiplication and swap between the numerator and the denominator in the second fraction.
We will solve by multiplying numerator by numerator and denominator by denominator.
Note that the right-hand side of the addition exercise between the fractions gives a result of a whole number, so we'll start with that:
Giving us:
According to the order of operations, we will solve the exercise from left to right.
Let's note that in the first addition exercise, we have an addition between two halves that will give us a whole number, so:
Now we will get the exercise:
Let's note that we can simplify the mixed fraction:
Now the exercise we get is:
According to the rules of the order of operations in arithmetic, we solve the exercise from left to right.
Let's note that:
We should obtain the following exercise:
When we have a fraction over a fraction, in this case one-third over one-sixth, we can convert it to a form that might be more familiar to us:
It's important to remember that a fraction is actually another sign of division, so the exercise we have is one-third divided by one-sixth.
When dealing with division of fractions, the easiest method for solving is performing "multiplication by the reciprocal", meaning:
Multiply numerator by numerator and denominator by denominator and get:
Which when reduced equals
Now let's return to the original exercise, to solve it we need to take the mixed fraction and convert it to an improper fraction,
meaning move the whole numbers back to the numerator.
To do this we'll multiply the whole number by the denominator and add to the numerator
And therefore the fraction is:
Now we want to do the subtraction exercise, but we see that we have another step on the way.
We subtract fractions when both fractions have the same denominator,
so we'll expand the fraction to a denominator of 2, and we'll get:
And now we can perform subtraction -
We'll convert this back to a mixed fraction and we'll see that the result is
Let's solve the exercise from left to right.
We will combine the left expression in the following way:
Now we get:
\( 4\times\frac{2}{3}= \)
\( 3\times\frac{1}{2}= \)
\( 2:\frac{2}{3}= \)