4.1 Fractions of whole numbers

$\frac{4}{7}$

$\frac{5}{8}$

$\frac{\text{10}}{\text{15}}$

$\frac{1}{9}$

$\frac{0}{2}$

one tenth

eleven fourteenths

sixteen thirty-fifths

eight hundred seven-thousandths

$\frac{3}{8}$

$\frac{1}{\text{10}}$

$\frac{3}{\text{250}}$

$\frac{\text{114}}{\text{3,190}}$

The number $\frac{5}{9}$ is used in converting from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

A dime is $\frac{1}{\text{10}}$ of a dollar.

$\frac{3}{4}$

$\frac{9}{\text{10}}$

$\frac{1}{5}$

$\frac{5}{6}$

$\frac{7}{7}$

$\frac{4}{6}$

$\frac{0}{\text{12}}$

$\frac{\text{25}}{\text{25}}$

$\frac{\text{18}}{1}$

$\frac{0}{\text{16}}$

four fifths

two ninths

fifteen twentieths

forty-seven eighty-thirds

ninety-one one hundred sevenths

twenty-two four hundred elevenths

six hundred five eight hundred thirty-fourths

three thousand three forty-four ten-thousandths

ninety-two one-millionths

one three-billionths

$\frac{5}{9}$

$\frac{6}{\text{10}}$

$\frac{8}{\text{15}}$

$\frac{\text{10}}{\text{13}}$

$\frac{\text{75}}{\text{100}}$

$\frac{\text{86}}{\text{135}}$

$\frac{\text{916}}{\text{1,014}}$

$\frac{\text{501}}{\text{10,001}}$

$\frac{\text{18}}{\text{31,608}}$

$\frac{1}{\text{500,000}}$

$\frac{3}{5}$

$\frac{1}{8}$

$\frac{6}{6}$

$\frac{0}{3}$

A contractor is selling houses on $\frac{1}{4}$ acre lots.

The fraction $\frac{\text{22}}{7}$ is sometimes used as an approximation to the number $\pi$ . (The symbol is read “pi.")

The fraction $\frac{4}{3}$ is used in finding the volume of a sphere.

One inch is $\frac{1}{\text{12}}$ of a foot.

About $\frac{2}{7}$ of the students in a college statistics class received a “B” in the course.

The probability of randomly selecting a club when drawing one card from a standard deck of 52 cards is $\frac{\text{13}}{\text{52}}$ .

In a box that contains eight computer chips, five are known to be good and three are known to be defective. If three chips are selected at random, the probability that all three are defective is $\frac{1}{\text{56}}$ .

In a room of 25 people, the probability that at least two people have the same birthdate (date and month, not year) is $\frac{\text{569}}{\text{1000}}$ .

The mean (average) of the numbers 21, 25, 43, and 36 is $\frac{\text{125}}{4}$ .

If a rock falls from a height of 20 meters on Jupiter, the rock will be $\frac{\text{32}}{\text{25}}$ meters high after $\frac{6}{5}$ seconds.

( [link] ) Use the numbers 3 and 11 to illustrate the commutative property of addition.

( [link] ) Find the quotient. $\text{676}÷\text{26}$

( [link] ) Write $7\cdot 7\cdot 7\cdot 7\cdot 7$ using exponents.

( [link] ) Find the value of $\frac{8\cdot \left(6+\text{20}\right)}{8}+\frac{3\cdot \left(6+\text{16}\right)}{\text{22}}$ .

( [link] ) Find the least common multiple of 12, 16, and 18.