{"id":3355,"date":"2014-01-08T17:51:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T17:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2018-02-20T18:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:27:54","slug":"math-how-to-handle-multiple-stage-fractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-how-to-handle-multiple-stage-fractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Math:  How to handle multiple-stage fractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring middle school or high school math, you come across these from time to time. \u00a0The math tutor explains how to unravel them.<\/h1>\n<p>We sometimes might encounter a fraction such as<\/p>\n<p>(3\/4)\/8<\/p>\n<p>How do you simplify such a fraction to a normal, two-stage one?<\/p>\n<p>First, notice the separation: it&#8217;s between the 3\/4 and the 8. <strong>Printed books may use a longer line instead of brackets.<\/strong> The separation can be written as a divided sign:<\/p>\n<p>(3\/4)\/8=3\/4&#247;8<\/p>\n<p>To divide with fractions, you rewrite the first, invert the second, and multiply. Note that 8 is really 8\/1.  We proceed as follows:<\/p>\n<p>(3\/4)\/8=3\/4&#247;8=3\/4&#247;8\/1=3\/4*1\/8=3\/32<\/p>\n<p>Another example:<\/p>\n<p>Simplify (5\/9)\/(4\/3)<\/p>\n<p>Note the separation is between 5\/9 and 4\/3. Recall that, in a printed book, a longer line might be used between them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, fraction really means<\/p>\n<p>5\/9&#247;4\/3<\/p>\n<p>which really means<\/p>\n<p>5\/9*3\/4=15\/36=5\/12<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring middle school or high school math, you come across these from time to time. \u00a0The math tutor explains how to unravel them. We sometimes might encounter a fraction such as (3\/4)\/8 How do you simplify such a fraction to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-how-to-handle-multiple-stage-fractions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math:  How to handle multiple-stage fractions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,62],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-complex-fractions","tag-multiple-stage-fractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30204,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/30204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}