Answer:
2 1/2
Explanation:
Step 1:
We first want to find the whole number, and to do this we divide the numerator by the denominator. Since we are only interested in whole numbers, we ignore any numbers to the right of the decimal point.
20/8= 2.5 = 2
Now that we have our whole number for the mixed fraction, we need to find our new numerator for the fraction part of the mixed number.
Step 2: Get the new numerator
To work this out we'll use the whole number we calculated in step one (2) and multiply it by the original denominator (8). The result of that multiplication is then subtracted from the original numerator:
20 - (8 x 2) = 4
Step 3: Our mixed fraction
We've now simplified 20/8 to a mixed number. To see it, we just need to put the whole number together with our new numerator and original denominator:
2 4/8
Step four: Convert it by simplifying
2 4/8 = 2 1/2