Question

how 50/3=16 2/3
explain​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Lots of right answers here, so I’ll go at it a different way. It’s more complex but it gets to the heart of the matter rather than giving you a random rule to memorise.

A fraction is just a division that isn’t worked out. The 23 is just 2÷3 . We don’t go any further because we can’t represent the answer as whole numbers. We generally don’t mix decimal numbers and fractions — they’re two ways of doing the same thing — and in this case representing the 23 as a decimal is messy and doesn’t help us; we need a fraction at the end of this.

So 1623 is just 16+23 which we can also write as 161+23

To work that out we need to find a common denominator. Multiplying the denominators doesn’t always give us the lowest one we could use, but it always works and in this case it does. That would be 1×3=3 .

So we multiply each numerator by what we multiplied the denominator by to get to the common denominator. Remember that we can multiply the top and the bottom by the same number and not change the result.

16×31×3+2×13×1

We work out the multiplications

483+23

Now that the denominators are the same we can join the two halves together

48+23

Finally we work out the addition