One Sixteenth. If a cake is cut into 8 equal pieces each piece is one-eighth of the cake.If you now cut each of those 8 pieces of cake into two you would now have 16 pieces, each one being one-sixteenth of the whole cake.
Any whole number can be converted to a fraction by putting it over 1.
To convert a mixed number to an improper fraction, multiply the denominator by the whole number, add that total to the numerator and put the whole thing over the original denominator.
Change each mixed fraction to an improper fraction. Do this by multiplying the denominator by the whole number next to the fraction and then adding the numerator to the product you get. Once you do this, multiply fractions normally.
Three fifths is larger than two fifths. In fractions, if the bottom numbers (denominators) are the same, then the fraction with the larger top number (numerator) is larger. Look at it another way. Lets say there is one cake, and we cut the cake into 5 equal pieces. So each piece is 1/5. Now if you were very hungry, would you rather have two slices (2/5) or three (3/5)?
Each one would get 17/30.
The number of pieces in the whole is the reciprocal of the fraction which represents each piece.So if each piece is a seventh = 1/7, then the number of pieces in the whole is 1/(a seventh) = 1/(1/7) = 7.
One third each.
We each had a piece of the birthday cake.
The simplest example is to take your birthday cake and cut it so that each of your ten guests have an equal slice. Each slice is a tenth of the whole cake. Therefore, a tenth is a fraction (or part) of a whole.
The fraction with the smaller denominator has fewer pieces in the whole. So each piece must be bigger.
Each person will then get 1/3 of the cake.
One third of a number is the same as dividing that number by three.
One Sixteenth. If a cake is cut into 8 equal pieces each piece is one-eighth of the cake.If you now cut each of those 8 pieces of cake into two you would now have 16 pieces, each one being one-sixteenth of the whole cake.
A fraction is a part of a whole. For instance, if you cut a cake into ten slices, each slice is a tenth of the whole cake. Therefore, the fraction for the slice would be 1/10 (one tenth or one over ten).
1/12 is greater because the bigger the fraction, the more pieces the whole has to be divided into, so each piece is smaller.
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