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The numerator tells how many of something, and the denominator tells the size of the "something".

Take a Pizza and cut it into 8 pieces. Each piece is one eighth, or one of eight (1/8), so 8 is the denominator. If you take 3 pieces, you now have three eighths (3/8) of the pizza.

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