Friday, September 17, 2010

Changing one quantity as a fraction of another amount

In this lesson, we're going learn rates in fraction. Rates in fraction is like this, finding a part in the whole part.
Also each fractions needs to be expressed in the same units and it needs to be tat the smaller part goes the above.

  First example is "What fraction is 30 minutes in 2 hours?"
Now we need to make the unit same so 1 hour equals 60 minutes, 2 hours equals 120 minutes.
Therefore 30 minutes/120 minutes equals 1/4.
This cancels down to 1/4.

Second example is "What example is 40 cents of $5?"
In this example 1 dollar is 100 cent,m so$5 is 500 cent.
Therefore, 40/500 equals 2/25.

  Third and last example is "What fraction is 24cm of 1m?"
Same as the other examples, we need to make the units same so 1m equals to 100cm,
so 24/100 equals to 6/25.

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