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common fraction
noun
Arithmetic.
- a fraction represented as a numerator above and a denominator below a horizontal or diagonal line.
common fraction
noun
- another name for simple fraction
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of common fraction1
First recorded in 1890–95
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A third of American adults can’t do two-step math problems with whole numbers or handle common fractions or percentages, such as ¾ and 50 percent.
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They may then respond correctly when asked to write a decimal fraction, or to state which of these,—1⁄4, .4, 3⁄8, .07, .002, 5⁄6,—are common fractions and which are decimal fractions.
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Expressed by a common fraction it is merely 1/3, which is an incomplete mathematical figure.
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Happiness, said Carlyle, is as the value of a common fraction, which results from dividing the numerator by the denominator.
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Many think common fractions vulgar, but they are the components of millions.
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