Explain how you know that when finding a fractional part of a whole number is the same as multiplying that fraction by a whole numbver

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Joslyn Kirby

11 March, 16:00

Explain how you know that when finding a fractional part of a whole number is the same as multiplying that fraction by a whole numbver

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Lindsay Warren · Answer 1

I know that because my 8th grade math teacher taught us (in 1954)

that when you see the word "of" in a math problem, it almost always

means "times". So part of your question says " ... finding a fractional

part times a whole number ... ".