eolas/Mathematics/Prealgebra/Expressing whole numbers as fractions.md
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tags:
- Mathematics
- Prealgebra
- fractions
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Being asked to express a natural number as a fraction seems confusing at first but you need to just know that for any whole number $n$, you express it as a fraction with $\frac{n}{1}$.
*Express 8 as an equivalent fraction having the denominator 5*
$$
8 = \frac{8}{1} = \frac{8 \cdot 5}{1 \cdot 5} = \frac{40}{5}
$$