Question

Find the missing fraction./ + 1/16= 3/2

Answer 1

23/16

Explanation:

Answer 2

To get the idea of how to solve this, let's use simple easy numbers.

? + 2 = 5

What would the "?" be?

It is basically telling us that 2 added with ?WHAT? gives us 5?

We know it's 3!

But how did we figure it out??

We did 5 - 2 = 3...

Similarly we will solve the fractional problem shown:

? + 1/16= 3/2

this will be: "what plus 1/16 gives us 3/2??"

How will we solve it? Similar to the easy problem we just solved.

It will be 3/2 MINUS 1/16

So, that is:

`(3)/(2)-(1)/(16)`

The common denominator, before we add, is 16. So let's do the problem:

`\begin{gathered} (3)/(2)-(1)/(16) \\ =(3(8)-1)/(16) \\ =(24-1)/(16) \\ =(23)/(16) \end{gathered}`