FRACTIONS!!!

BY FELIX ROSALES
BASIC FRACTIONS

 1. A fraction is a part of a whole number or object.

 2. The fraction is written with a number on top of a horizontal line and another number on the bottom
 3. The number on the bottom, or the denominator, shows how many equal pieces the whole has been divided
into.
 4. The number on the top, or the numerator, show how many pieces of the whole we have currently
 5. You can never have the bottom number, or denominator, at less than one.
IMPROPER FRACTIONS

 Any fraction where the number on top (the numerator) is equal to or greater than the number on the bottom
(the denominator) is called an improper fraction.
WRITING A FRACTION IN TWO THREE WAYS

 You can calculate the value of any fraction or make other, equivalent fractions by dividing the top and bottom
 You can also make other fractions by multiplying the top and bottom by another number
 Example 1: 10/5 = 2, because 10 divided by 5 = 2
 Example 2: 1/3 can be made into 2/6 by multiplying 1 and 3 by 2
 Saying 1/3 and 2/6 is basically saying the same thing. They both represent the same part of a whole
 In the same way we can make big fractions simpler by dividing the top and bottom of a fraction by the same number. This is ca lled
reducing a fraction. (example 25/75 divided by 5 = 5/15, then divide 5/15 by five again and it equals 1/3.)
 Notice how when we had our example, we divided by five twice. We can make the process even simpler by dividing the top and bottom
of our example by 25, as 25 divided by 25 equals 1 and 75 divided by 25 equals 3.
 A way to make reducing bigger fractions easier is to figure out what two, multiplied numbers equal your number, then grab the common
factor of both of them and cross it out of the equation. The result is the remaining numbers are your reduced fraction (example: 21/35:
3x7=21 5x7=35. cross out the seven, {the common factor,} and put them on top of each other in the original order {3/5 because we
figured out that 21=3 and 35=5} and that is your answer.)
CALCULATING WHICH FRACTION IS BIGGER

 To calculate which fraction is bigger, (for example 1/3 or 2/5) we just multiply the top and bottom by a number
until the bottoms of both fractions are the same. (example 1/3x5=5/15 2/5x3=6/15)
 From there we just look at the top numbers of both fractions to see which is bigger! (example 5/15 or 6/15,
which is bigger? Obviously 6/15 or its equivalent, 2/5!)
PRIME NUMBERS

 Prime numbers are numbers that cant be broken down into a multiplication of smaller whole numbers.
 We can use prime numbers to make larger cases of factoring and canceling easier to do
 (Example: 30/42 broken down: 3x10/6x7. there is no common factor to cancel, so we break them up into prime
factor multiplications: 3x10=3x2x5. 6x7= 2x3x7. cancel the twos and the threes and you get 5/7. that is your fully
reduced answer.)
 When you’re reducing a fraction by factoring and canceling, you have to break the numbers all the way down to
prime numbers, or numbers that can't be broken down into a multiplication of smaller whole numbers.
ADDING AND SUBTRACTING FRACTIONS

 When adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators (bottoms), always make sure to make the
denominators the same by multiplying the smaller one until it is equal to the larger one.
 Sometimes you have to change the bottoms of both fractions (Example: 1/2 + 1/3. as you can see, there is no
number that you can multiply with to change the 2 in 1/2 to a 3 and vice versa, so we need to change both of
them, 1/2 * 3 = 3/6,1/3 * 2 = 2/6. now we can add them together. )
 An easy way to do it is to multiply each denominator by the other denominator.
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