Question

A local middle school has 47 computers and 174 students. What is the number of students per computer at the school? Write your answer as both a mixed number in simplest form and a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth

Answer 1

3 33/47 or 3.7

To find the decimal, you just divide the 174 students by the 47 computers and round to the nearest tenth. Then to find the fraction you take the whole number that you got from your previous division problem, multiply 47 by it, and subtract that from the whole to get it in fraction form.