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True or false? 5 2/3 and 3/17 are reciprocal numbers.

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5 2/3......turn to an improper fraction = 17/3

17/3 and 3/17 ARE reciprocals <===

because the reciprocal is basically just " flipping " the number. But as a definition, reciprocals are a pair of numbers, that when multiplied, equals 1....also known as the multiplicative inverse
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