Re: [Math4u] Does fraction mean division?

I believe you can still refer to 3/4 as division, as
in your example of the pizza, you are dividing 3
pizzas among (by) four people, and each will end up
with 3/4 of 1 pizza.

--- badriyaraihani <bonnerentree2003@yahoo.fr> wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> What is ¾ ?
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> We can visualize ¾ as 1 pizza cut into 4
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> equal slices and you get 3 slices.each
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> slice equals ¼ . and you get 3x1/4. In
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> this case ¾ is a fraction (we do the share within 1
> )here to
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> have a whole (1) we mut add 1/4.This is a unit
> partition
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> But ¾ can also be seen as 3 pizzas to be shared
> among 4 persons.
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> We have 3 units .here we say that we have to divide
> 3
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> units into 4.This is a plural partition
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> So in this case ¾ is a division
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> In the both cases the fraction bar(/) is used .
> this slash
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> sometimes mean fraction and sometimes division.
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> It is a big mistake to say that fraction mean
> division.only in
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> the case of the unit fractions( fractions which
> have 1 as
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> numerator) that the meaning of fraction is equal to
> the
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> meaning of division.
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> The fraction ¼ is the same of 1 divided by 4
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> Badriya
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