Saturday 9 June 2012

How to Solve Fraction Problems

In the previous post we have discussed about how to compare fractions and In today's session we are going to discuss about How to Solve Fraction Problems. If we talk about the fraction numbers, we say that the numbers which can be expressed in the form of  a/ b , where a and b are whole numbers and b <> 0. Here we say that a is the numerator and b is the denominator. Thus to learn about how to do fractions, we must look into the different mathematical operators and the logical operators of the fraction numbers.
By the logical operators we mean comparing of two fraction numbers. If two fraction numbers are to be compared, we first check the numbers are proper fraction or not. Every time a proper fraction is less than the improper fraction number. As proper fraction number is always less than 1 and the improper fraction number is greater than 1.
If both the fractions are proper or improper, then we will check if the denominators of the two fraction numbers are same or not. In case the two denominators are same, it means that the smaller numerator represents the smaller fraction. In other situation we will look if the numerators of the two fraction numbers are same or not. If the numerators are same, then the smaller numerator represents the larger number.
 In another situation we find the fraction number where neither the numerator is same nor the denominator is same. In such cases we will convert the two fractions into their equivalent form such that the denominator of both the fraction numbers becomes same and it is done by first finding the LCM of the two denominators and then converting the fraction into their equivalent fraction numbers such that their denominator becomes equal to the LCM of the two denominators.
We can visit online math tutor which can help us to learn about what are prime numbers. In Gujarat state education board prime numbers are in the syllabus of grade 4 mathematics.

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