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Pre-Algebra help!!

 
 
THX-1138
14:39 / 07.07.02
Teach me how to 'Write each ratio as a fraction' :

1 3
6- oz to 2- lb.
2 4

Anyone?Thanks.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
14:45 / 07.07.02
There's only one ration here, as you've written them.

If it's 1:3, though, that would be one out of three or 1/3.

If you mean the rather more tricky business of thinking like a fraction and writing the ratios out, that's a far more challenging task. Sit back and try to relax your head. Then cool the whirring in the front bit of your brain, stop using your spare arm entirely, and imagine yourself incomplete. Then, carefully not using any of the parts you have decided to omit (hair, fingernails, spare arm, whatever), write the ratios down.

It should feel a bit like skipping with one leg whilst whistling two notes at once.

Only peaceful.
 
 
THX-1138
14:49 / 07.07.02
Aaagh it didn't post like I tried to get it to.Supposed to be
six and one half ounces to two and three-fourths (three-quarters?) pounds.
 
 
Lurid Archive
16:54 / 07.07.02
I always thought ratios were confusing. But if we divide a pile of something in the ratio 1:3, doesnt that mean that for every one I get, you get three? In which case, I get one quarter 1/4 of the pile and you get three quarters 3/4? So youve got to add the numbers to get the bottom of te fraction.

Cant remember how many ounzes in a pound, and cant be bothered to find out right now. The fact that you've got fractions in the ratio makes it a bit harder, but not much more so.
6 and 1/2 ounce:2 and 1/4 pounds equals
26 ounces: 9 pounds
 
 
THX-1138
18:44 / 07.07.02
I got it figured out. Change to ounces (16 oz to one pound), so 6 and one half stays unchanged for now, but 2 and three-fourths becomes 32 and 48 fourts which is then divided (48 divided by 4 ) giving us 12.
32 plus 12 equals 44. So we get 6 and one-half divided by 44. But then the 6and one-half needs to be changed to an improper fraction, thus: 13/2. That give us 13 over 2 divided by 44 over one, to multiply we invert the 44 over 1, to get one forty-fourth. The multiply.
The answer is 13/88 (13 over 88)
Something like that anyway.
 
 
Stone Mirror
04:16 / 08.07.02
Yes, 13:88 is correct.
 
  
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