Question

Determine the fraction that best represents Point B on the number line below. (Please explain in detail, I forgot how this works.)

Answer 1

`B\rightarrow (2)/(8)`

Explanation:

The given number lines has 8 units between 0 to 1.

Since the points lies between 0 and 1, so the points must represent numbers that are greater than 0 and less than 1.

Thus we can conclude that the points between 0 to 1 represent fractions.

Since there are 8 units between 0 to 1 so, we can put fractions with denominator 8 as the line is divided into 8 parts and the numerator keeps increasing as we go from left to right starting from 1.

So,the points on the number line are as follows:

`0,(1)/(8),(2)/(8),(3)/(8),(4)/(8),(5)/(8),(6)/(8),(7)/(8),1`

The point B represents fraction
`(2)/(8)` as it is the second part of the 8 parts of the line. (Answer)