By what percent will a fraction decrease if its numerator is decreased by 50% and its denominator...
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By what percent will a fraction decrease if its numerator is decreased by 50% and its denominator is decreased by 25%?
Fractions
The idea of fractions is commonly encountered in our everyday lives. Few examples are: slices of a pizza or cake, the visible part of the moon, the amounts of the ingredients for cooking and baking, etc. Fractions can also represent a percentage, a ratio or scale of different quantities.
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View this answerIf the numerator X has decreased by 50%, then the new numerator would be given by
$$\left(100\%-50\%\right)X= 50 \% X =\dfrac{1}{2} X\\ $$ On the...
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Chapter 19 / Lesson 1By the end of this lesson, you should be able to: Describe a fraction and give examples; Identify the types of fractions and examples of each and perform basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) on fractions.