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What is the difference between a top heavy fraction and a mixed number?
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A top heavy fraction is one in which the top number is greater than the bottom number, such as 7/5. Top heavy fractions are not excepted as final answers. A mixed number is one where the top number is divided into the bottom number, so that it is not top heavy, such as 1 2/5, which is the same as 7/5.
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What is the difference between a proper fraction and an improper fraction?
In an improper fraction the absolute value of the numerator (the top) is bigger than the absolute value of the denominator. An improper fraction is also called a top-heavy fraction.
How do you convert a top heavy fraction?
You divide the top number by the bottom number.
How do you do top heavy mixed number fraction?
The naswer will depend on what you mean by "doing" top heavy fractions.
Is the denominator the largest number?
Not necessarily. And certainly not in a top-heavy (improper) fraction.
Can a fraction be a prime number?
Not a proper fraction since it is less than 1. But a top heavy fraction certainly can be. For example, 9/3 which is 3.
What is difference between road tar and asphalt?
Road tar is made from coal. Asphalt is a heavy fraction of petroleum.
What is the difference between a proper fraction and an improper fraction?
In an improper fraction the absolute value of the numerator (the top) is bigger than the absolute value of the denominator. An improper fraction is also called a top-heavy fraction.
What is the number called when the top number of the fraction is bigger than the bottom number?
It is called a top-heavy fraction. This is called an improper fraction. Example: 45/42 -
How do you convert a top heavy fraction?
You divide the top number by the bottom number.
What is the difference between mixed fraction and vulgar fraction?
A mixed fraction is one which has an integer part and a proper fractional part. A vulgar (or top heavy) fraction is one where the numerator is bigger than the denominator. For example, one and a quarter, as a mixed fraction, is 11/4 whereas as a vulgar fraction, it is 5/4
How do you do top heavy mixed number fraction?
The naswer will depend on what you mean by "doing" top heavy fractions.
What type of fraction has a big top number and not the bottom?
It is called an improper or vulgar fraction. Or, for obvious reasons, a top-heavy fraction.
When dividing fractions what is it most helpful to change a mixed number into?
improper fraction
What is the general rule for writing a mixed number as a imprper fraction?
As an improper fraction the numerator will be greater than the denominator or it will be a 'top heavy' fraction
Is the denominator the largest number?
Not necessarily. And certainly not in a top-heavy (improper) fraction.
Can a fraction be a prime number?
Not a proper fraction since it is less than 1. But a top heavy fraction certainly can be. For example, 9/3 which is 3.
What does a whole number and a fraction make?
a mixed number. example: 1+1/2, or a top heavy fraction, 1+1/2 = 3/2
