SOLUTION: hello
i just started ITT & i'm new to college level math my instructor kinda gave an explanation, but i'm still struggling to understand the questions, one in particular is
4/5
Question 248710: hello
i just started ITT & i'm new to college level math my instructor kinda gave an explanation, but i'm still struggling to understand the questions, one in particular is
4/5 with a denominator of 20
i'm supposed to write it as an equivalent fraction, but there is not much to go on, please help me understand Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, richwmiller:Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Remember that any fraction of the form can be rewritten as where 'k' is some number. In other words, we multiply both the numerator and denominator of by 'k' to get .
In particular, the fraction can be multiplied by some number to get some other fraction. Since we want the denominator to be equal to 20, this means that we multiply the denominator of 5 by 4 to get 5*4=20. We must do the same to the numerator. So what we've done is:
So which means that is an equivalent fraction to but it has a denominator of 20.
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