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mixed number
noun
Arithmetic.
- a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction or decimal, as 4½ or 4.5.
mixed number
- A number, such as 7 3 8 , consisting of a whole number and a fraction.
- An expression, such as 7 x + 6 − 5 (x + 4) , consisting of a polynomial and a rational algebraic fraction.
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of mixed number1
First recorded in 1535–45
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Many women, finding on their meat bill "73⁄8 lb. roast beef $2.36," will spend time and money to telephone the butcher asking how much roast beef was per pound, because they have no sure power in dividing by a mixed number.
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Most of them will not, however, be able to respond correctly to "Write a decimal mixed number"; or to state which of these,—1⁄100 .4½, .007⁄350, $.25,—are common fractions, and which are decimals; or to write the decimal fractions which equal 3⁄4 and 1⁄3.
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Reduction of a mixed number to an improper fraction.
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Reduction of an improper fraction to a mixed number.
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Reduce to a mixed number: Simplify: 3.
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