You could consider the whole number as a fraction whose denominator is 1. For example, 37 = 37/1.
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The same way you calculate averages with whole numbers: Add up all the fractions and divide by the number of fractions there are.
A simple fraction is a fraction that is a whole number divided by a whole number. Complex fractions can have fractions inside of fractions.
Fractions are not whole numbers. They are fractions. You can call a fraction a whole number, but that doesn't make it one.
You multiply the denominator by the whole number the add the numerator and you keep the denominator the same.