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A mixed fraction is written in two parts: the first part is an integer and the second part is a proper rational fraction. An example is "two and three fifths" which is written as 2 3/5.
10 1/2
29 over 16 is a top heavy fraction. As a mixed number this will be expressed as a mixed fraction. In this case it is expressed as 1 13/29 where 1 represents a whole number.
To convert the fraction 42/6 to a mixed number, you need to divide 42 by 6. The quotient is 7, which represents the whole number part of the mixed number. The remainder is 0, indicating that the fraction is a whole number. Therefore, 42/6 as a mixed number is simply 7.
Well, isn't that a happy little number we have here! Let's turn 138.6 into a mixed number. We can write it as 138 3/5, where 3/5 represents the decimal .6. Just a little bit of math and we've created a beautiful mixed number!
Four and seventy-two hundredths in decimal form is written as 4.72. This is because the number 4 represents the whole number part, and the number 72 represents the fractional part out of 100 (hundredths). When combined, it forms the decimal representation of the mixed number.