18 lines
402 B
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18 lines
402 B
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- prealgebra
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- fractions
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# Expressing whole numbers as fractions
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Being asked to express a natural number as a fraction seems confusing at first
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but you need to just know that for any whole number $n$, you express it as a
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fraction with $\frac{n}{1}$.
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_Express 8 as an equivalent fraction having the denominator 5_
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$$
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8 = \frac{8}{1} = \frac{8 \cdot 5}{1 \cdot 5} = \frac{40}{5}
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