35 cut in half is 17.5. It can also be said 17 and 1/2 or 17 and one half.
1. Cut it in half - there are 2 halves. 2. Cut one of these in half - there are two quarter and one half. 3. Cut the other in half - there are four quarters. 4. Stack them and cut in half - there are eight eighths. 5. Stack them and cut in half - there are sixteen pieces. Cuts 2 and 3 could have been combined, by stacking, to do it all in 4 cuts.
1/2 is bigger. To know this you could buy 2 cakes and cut one of them into half, and one of them into 5 pieces. You'll then see that the piece of cake which you've cut it in half is bigger,
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If you have half of something and you cut it in half again, you get the fraction of 1/4.
Cut it in half.
35 cut in half is 17.5. It can also be said 17 and 1/2 or 17 and one half.
1/2 of 12.5 = 6.25 ============================== Another contributor expanded: when you cut a half in half it always makes a fourth . for example its easy half of 4.5? 4 divided by 2 is 2 .5 cut in half is .25 so 4.5 in half is 2.25
1. Cut it in half - there are 2 halves. 2. Cut one of these in half - there are two quarter and one half. 3. Cut the other in half - there are four quarters. 4. Stack them and cut in half - there are eight eighths. 5. Stack them and cut in half - there are sixteen pieces. Cuts 2 and 3 could have been combined, by stacking, to do it all in 4 cuts.
1. cut the cake in half horizontally so it has 2 tiers (2 circular cakes sitting on top of each other) 2. cut the cake in half vertically so you have 2 semicircles on each layer 3 cut the 2 semicircles in half so you have 2 tiers each cut into 4 pieces.
1/2 is bigger. To know this you could buy 2 cakes and cut one of them into half, and one of them into 5 pieces. You'll then see that the piece of cake which you've cut it in half is bigger,
No. There is no way you can cut one rectangle in half and only get one square. The other half would also have to be a square and this will only happen if the proportions are 1:2 and you cut the long sides.There are infinitely many ways to cut a rectangle in half none of which result in new rectangles. Only if the rectangle has proportions 1:2 can cutting it in half make a square, in fact the result could be two squares, not one.
You can do it in your head. Cutting something in half is the same as dividing by a factor of 2. Cut 48 in half. Cut 24 in half. Cut 12 in half. Cut 6 in half. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 = 48
(1/2*1/2*1/2)/(1/2*1/4*1/2) = 2
To cut jello recipes in half, simply use 1/2 the amount of each ingredient called for in the recipe. For instance if the recipe calls for 2 cups of jello, use 1 cup and follow suit with the other ingredients.
1. Half of a Square (Diagonal Cut) 2. Half of a Parallelogram (Diagonal Cut) 3. If you take the rectangle out of a Trapezoid that makes 2 more 4. If you take the 2 vertices closest to the tip of a Pentagon and cut of the rest that's another one