Question 112398
You can't reduce it to 8 1/2, but you can reduce it.
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You got 30/4 and that is correct.
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Then you divided 4 into 30 and you got 7 2/4 and that is also correct.
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Next you can recognize that 2/4 is equivalent to 1/2. [You can get that by dividing the
numerator and the denominator of 2/4 by 2. That makes the numerator 1 and the denominator 2.]
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So your answer of 7 2/4 becomes 7 1/2 when you replace the 2/4 by its equal of 1/2.
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The reduced answer to this problem is 7 1/2 .... not 8 1/2.
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You did everything else correctly. Good job!!!
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