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What is the difference between a top heavy fraction and a mixed number?
A top heavy fraction is one in which the top number is greater than the bottom number, such as 7/5. Top heavy fractions are not excepted as final answers. A mixed number is one where the top number is divided into the bottom number, so that it is not top heavy, such as 1 2/5, which is the same as 7/5.
What is a mixed number for three fourths?
Since 3/4 is not a top heavy fraction, there is no need to express it as a mixed number.
What is the mixed number of 3and 5 8th's?
that is already the mixed number. as a top heavy fraction it is 29/8 and as decimal it is 3.625
What is 23.535 as a mixed number in simplest form?
This is a bit of an awkward fraction. Top heavy fraction: 4707/200 Mixed fraction: 23 and 107/200
Do all fractions convert to a mixed number?
No. A mixed number is one where there is a whole number and a fraction. If the whole number is 0 there is no whole number and all that remains is the fraction. All improper (top heavy) fractions can be converted to a mixed number.
What is the difference between a top heavy fraction and a mixed number?
A top heavy fraction is one in which the top number is greater than the bottom number, such as 7/5. Top heavy fractions are not excepted as final answers. A mixed number is one where the top number is divided into the bottom number, so that it is not top heavy, such as 1 2/5, which is the same as 7/5.
What is a mixed number for three fourths?
Since 3/4 is not a top heavy fraction, there is no need to express it as a mixed number.
How can you use the reciprocal of a number by a mixed number?
Convert the mixed number into an improper (top-heavy) fraction first. Then swap the numerator and denominator.
What is the mixed number of 3and 5 8th's?
that is already the mixed number. as a top heavy fraction it is 29/8 and as decimal it is 3.625
When dividing fractions what is it most helpful to change a mixed number into?
improper fraction
What is 23.535 as a mixed number in simplest form?
This is a bit of an awkward fraction. Top heavy fraction: 4707/200 Mixed fraction: 23 and 107/200
Do all fractions convert to a mixed number?
No. A mixed number is one where there is a whole number and a fraction. If the whole number is 0 there is no whole number and all that remains is the fraction. All improper (top heavy) fractions can be converted to a mixed number.
What is the general rule for writing a mixed number as a imprper fraction?
As an improper fraction the numerator will be greater than the denominator or it will be a 'top heavy' fraction
What is 29 over 16 as a mixed number?
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.
What is 15 over 2 simplified into a fraction?
15/2 = 71/2, but as a top heavy fraction and not a mixed number, it is as simple as you can get it.
What is one and one tenth called in a mixed number?
1 and 1/10 is a mixed number as is. 11/10 is a top heavy fraction and 1.1 is a decimal
What does a whole number and a fraction make?
a mixed number. example: 1+1/2, or a top heavy fraction, 1+1/2 = 3/2
