SOLUTION: 1 1/4 divided by a=5 I am trying to help my son with this and we can't figure it out. Will you please show all the work so we can do the rest of his homework from your example?

Question 567103: 1 1/4 divided by a=5
I am trying to help my son with this and we can't figure it out. Will you please show all the work so we can do the rest of his homework from your example? THANK YOU!!!
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1 1/4 divided by 5
You can think of this as

It's a little hard to imagine 1/4
divided into 5 equal parts, but if
you multiply the top and bottom
by , like this:
, the value
hasn't changed, and now you've got

and it's easy to divide by

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So far I've got
Multiply top and bottom of by

Now I have

Divide top and bottom by
answer
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(5/5) and (4/4) are just , so
multiplying by them doesn't change the rest
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