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How Can You Find Common Visual Learning Bridge

Denominators?
A

You can partition a

Tyrone partitioned a rectangle into thirds. Sally rectangle to show thirds
partitioned a rectangle of the same size into fourths. or fourths.
How could you partition a rectangle of the same size so
that you see both thirds and fourths?

Thirds Fourths
Thirds Fourths

B This rectangle is partitioned C The fractions _​​  13 ​​ and _​​  14 ​​  can be renamed with equivalent
into thirds and fourths. fractions.

Twelfths ​​  1 ​​ = ___

__ ​​  4  ​​  ​​ __
4
​​  3  ​​ 
1 ​​ = ___
3 12 12
The rectangle is partitioned 4
Fractions that have the same denominators, such as _   ​​ 
​​ 12
into 12 equal parts. _ 3
1 and ​​  12  ​​ , are said to have common denominators.
Each part is ​​ __
12
  ​​.

Convince Me!  Use Appropriate Tools  Draw rectangles such as

the ones above to find fractions equivalent to _​​ 25 ​​  and _​​  13 ​​that have the
same denominator.

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Practice Tools Assessment

Another Example
Any common denominator
Find a common denominator for ​​ _23 ​​  and _​​  56 ​​ . Then 5
for ​​  _23 ​​ and _
​​  6 ​ ​ is a multiple
rename each fraction with an equivalent fraction.
of both 3 and 6.

One Way Another Way

Multiply the denominators to find a Use the fact that one denominator is a
common denominator: ​3 × 6 = 18​. multiple of the other.

Write equivalent fractions with You know that 6 is a multiple of 3.

denominators of 18.
​​ __ ​  2 × 2 ​ = __
2 ​ = __ ​  4 ​​ 
3 3 × 2 6
​  2 × 6 ​ = __
​​  2 ​ = __
__ ​  12 ​  ​ 
  __ ​  5 × 3 ​ = __
5 ​  = __ ​  15 ​​ 
3 3 × 6 18 6 6 × 3 18 So, ​​ _46 ​​ and _​​  56 ​​is another way to rename
15
​​ 12
So, __ 18
 ​​ and __
​​  18 ​​ is one way to rename ​​  23 ​​ and _​​  56 ​​with a common denominator.
_
​​  23 ​​ and _​​  56 ​​with a common denominator.
_

Do You Understand? Do You Know How?

1. In the example on the previous page,
how many twelfths are in each In 2 and 3, find a common denominator
​​  13 ​​  section of Tyrone’s rectangle? How
_ for each pair of fractions.
many twelfths are in each _​​ 14 ​​  section of
Sally’s rectangle? ​​  3 ​​ and __
2. __ ​​​​  2 ​​  ​​  1 ​​  and __
3. __ ​​  4 ​​
8 3 6 3

In 4–11, find a common denominator for each pair of fractions. Then write
equivalent fractions with the common denominator.

​​  25 ​​ and __

4. __ ​​  1 ​​  ​​  1 ​​  and __
5. __ ​​  45 ​​  ​​  5 ​​  and __
6. __ ​​  34 ​​  ​​  3  ​​ and __
7. __ ​​  9  ​​
6 3 8 10 8

​​  37 ​​  and __

8. __ ​​  1 ​​  ​​  5  ​​ and __
9. __ ​​  35 ​​  ​​  7 ​​  and __
10. __ ​​  2 ​​  ​​  3 ​​  and __
11. __ ​​  9  ​​ 
2 12 9 3 8 20

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12. Critique Reasoning  Explain any 13. Higher Order Thinking  For keeping
mistakes in the renaming of the business records, every three months
fractions below. Show the correct of a year is called a quarter. How many
renaming. months are equal to three-quarters of
​​  3 ​ = ___
__ ​  9  ​  ​ 
  ​  6  ​​ 
2 ​  = ___
__ a year? Explain how you found your
4 12 3 12 answer.

14. Nelda baked two kinds of pasta in pans. Each pan

was the same size. She sliced one pan of pasta into
6 equal pieces. She sliced the other pan into 8 equal
pieces. How can the pans of pasta now be sliced so
that both pans have the same-sized pieces? Draw
on the pictures to show your work. If Nelda has
served 6 pieces from one pan so far, what fraction
of one pan has she served?

15. Number Sense  What is the price of

Gasoline Prices
premium gasoline rounded to the nearest
DATA

dollar? rounded to the nearest dime? Grade Price (per gallon)

rounded to the nearest penny? Regular $4.199
Premium $4.409
Diesel $5.019

Assessment Practice

16. Choose all the numbers that could be 17. Choose all the numbers that could be
common denominators for _​​ 23 ​​ and _​​  34 ​​. common denominators for __​​ 11
12
​​  45 ​​.
 ​​ and _

8 12
12 17
16 30
36 60
48 125

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