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Kylie rewrites 8½ as 17/8. Explain her error.
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Kylie rewrites 8½ as 17/8. Explain her error.

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8x2, which would give us the whole number in fractions, is 16. Add the remaining 1 and you get 17/2.

The denominator does not change, and our answer is seventeen halves, whereas Kylie's answer is seventeen eighths, which would simply to 2 1/8.
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