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How do you multiply mixed numbers by fractions?
Convert the mixed number to an improper fraction and proceed normally.
How do you convert mixed numbers to fractions?
To convert an improper fraction to a mixed number, divide the denominator into the numerator. The answer is the whole number. Put any remainder over the original denominator to create the fraction part.
A number containing a whole number and a fraction?
mixed numbers
How do you make a proper fraction into an improper fraction?
Ussaly when you have an improper fraction, you need to convert it into a mixed number, which means dividing out the parts that give you a whole number and leaving the extras in the fraction An exmple is 9/5, first you take out 5 from the top, to get a one, and are left with 4/5, so your answer is 1 4/5.
Why do you multiply the whole number by the denominator to get a mixed fraction?
You don't. But you do. When converting a mixed number into an improper fraction. A mixed fraction contains a whole number and a proper fraction, for example 23⁄4. To convert this to an 'improper' fraction, the whole number is multiplied by the denominator and added to the numerator to obtain the new numerator. See. but WHY? The denominator remains unchanged (unless, of course, you wish to simplify the fraction). This is unrelated! At no point did you actually provide an answer to this question.Continuing with the original example, for 23⁄4, (2 · 4 + 3) = 11, so the new fraction is 11⁄4.Ps. Anything in italics has been improved by another person.
