Wednesday, August 1, 2012

What is 11 3/4 divided by twono

The answer to this is 47/8.  You can simplify that to 5
7/8.


Here is how to get to this
answer.


First, you can convert 11 3/4 to a simple
fraction.  You do this by multiplying 11 by 4 and adding the three.  So 11 3/4 is
47/4.


Now you can divide this by two.  One way to do this
is to mulitply it by 1/2.  When you multiply fractions like that, you multiply top
numbers by top numbers, bottom numbers by bottom
numbers.


47*1 = 47


4*2 =
8


So 47/4 * 1/2 = 47/8

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