improper fraction

An improper fraction is another way to write a whole plus a part.

Another, often simpler, way of changing to an improper fraction is to do the following.

If you get an improper fraction as an answer to a problem you should always change it to a mixed number.

Now change the following improper fractions to mixed numbers.

"And you are the girl who flunked improper fractions?"

Change the following mixed number into an improper fraction:

A mixed number can be converted to an improper fraction as follows:

As before, to produce a triple from this sequence, select any term and reduce it to an improper fraction.

The new denominator is the same as the denominator of the improper fraction.

The resulting sum is the improper fraction.

Convert the whole number to an improper fraction with the same denominator as the fractional part, .

When multiplying mixed numbers, it's best to convert the mixed number into an improper fraction.

Change 2 and 1 to improper fractions:

She has nearly finished Colburn's mental arithmetic, her last work being in improper fractions.

I flunked improper fractions.

You can easily change back from an improper fraction to a mixed number by dividing the denominator into the numerator and putting the remainder over the denominator.

Now try to change the following to improper fractions: As you have seen in the last few questions, improper fractions Numerator are "top heavy".

The fraction is called an improper fraction and is a different way of writing 1 You will learn more about improper fractions in the next exercise.

"Boy, those nuns must really be telling their students to phone the hot line," Ms. Hyneck said after explaining how to change a mixed fraction into an improper fraction.

These axioms state that a proper fraction is a sum of improper fractions, a negative number is not a square number and hence does not have a square root.

In on-line exchanges, hackers tend to use decimal forms or improper fractions ('3.5' or '7/2') rather than 'typewriter style' mixed fractions ('3-1/2').

Examples of proper fractions are 2/3, -3/4, and 4/9; examples of improper fractions are 9/4, -4/3, and 8/3.

A vertex figure represents this in the Star polygon notation of sides p/q as an improper fraction (greater than one), where p is the number of sides and q the number of turns around a circle.

It is said to be an improper fraction (U.S., British or Australian) or top-heavy fraction (British, occasionally North America) if the absolute value of the fraction is greater than or equal to 1.