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Cut an apple in half and you get 1/2 and 1/2 of an apple. Look at a gas pump price and see a fraction of a dollar as the price per gallon. Look at the moon and calculate what fraction of the moon is showing at night. Use a ruler and determine what fraction of an inch is the length of something plus the number of whole inches.

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