Question

A person is holding two drill beats one is 3/8 and the other one is 11/32. To decide which is smaller the person expands to 3/8 to 32nds. What is the expanded fraction?

Answer 1

Step 1

Given;

$\begin{gathered} Two\text{ drill beats} \\ \frac{3}{8} \\ \frac{11}{32} \end{gathered}$

Required; To find which is smaller

Step 2

Expand 3/8 to the 32nds. We do this by making sure the denominator of 3/8 is 32. We, therefore, multiply both the numerator and denominator by 4.

$=\frac{3\times4}{8\times4}$$=\frac{12}{32}$

Answer;

$\frac{12}{32}$