Question

a fraction has a denominator of 20. the numerator has the value of “x less than the denominator” if the fraction is equivalent to 1/4, what i’d the value of x?

Answer 1

First what you want to do is find what fraction is equal to 1/4 and has a denominator of 20.

The way you can find this is by taking 1/4 and seeing how many times the denominator or 4 will go into 20.

4 * 5 = 20

Since 4 times 5 is 20, we will multiply 5 to the numerator of the fraction to.

1 * 5 = 5

So 5/20 is = to 1/4

x = 5

Now the question says, " x less thsn the denominator" so we just need to find how much less is 5 compared to 20.

20 - 5 = 15

The numerator has a value, "15 less than the denominator."

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