Question

Sarah said that 26÷8 is the same as/equal to 14÷4 and the answers are "3r2". What did Sarah do wrong? 5th grade math help fir my daughter. I think Sarah meant: 26÷8 is the same as or equal to 13÷4 instead of 14÷4 which is what she did wrong?

Answer 1

Yes

Explanation:

Yes, that is exactly what Sarah did wrong. Apparently, she tried to divide both the numerator and denominator in this problem by 2 (half) but divided the numerator incorrectly. 26 divided by 2 would equal 13 but Sarah mistakenly calculated it as 14 which would give her a totally different value when divided by the new denominator. If were to have divided correctly it would give her
`(13)/(4)` which is the same as
`(26)/(8)`