What is Fraction? It is the ratio of the part to the whole.
Explanation
Suppose you buy a cake, cut it into 5 pieces and eat one piece. Then
Eaten portion of cake: 1 piece out of 5 pieces
Uneaten portion of cake: 4 pieces out of 5
In the form of fraction we can write this way
Eaten portion of cake:
Uneaten portion of cake:
So one-fifth part of the cake is eaten, and four-fifth part of the cake is uneaten.
What is Fraction? How to read a Fraction?
Observe that in fraction one number is written over another with a line in between. The number above the line is Numerator and the number below the line is Denominator. The line in between is called Fraction Bar. This line also represents the symbol ‘÷‘ (divided by) or the word “over” or “out of”.
So this fraction may be read out in following 4 ways:
- Four divided by five
- Four over five
- Four out of five
- Four-fifth
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