A basketball player is 6 2/3 feet tall
His infant son is 1/4 as tall how tall is the son
To find the height of the son, you need to multiply the height of the basketball player by 1/4.
6 2/3 feet can be written as 20/3 feet.
Height of the son = (20/3 feet) * (1/4) = 20/12 feet = 5/3 feet.
Therefore, the son is 5/3 feet tall.
To find the height of the son, we need to multiply the height of the basketball player by 1/4.
First, let's convert the height of the basketball player to a mixed fraction:
6 2/3 feet = (6 * 3 + 2) / 3 = 20/3 feet
Now, we can calculate the height of the son by multiplying the height of the basketball player by 1/4:
(20/3) * (1/4) = 20/12 = 5/3 feet
Therefore, the son is 5/3 feet tall.
To find out how tall the son is, we need to calculate 1/4 of the father's height. Here's how you can do that:
1. Convert the father's height from mixed number format (6 2/3 feet) to an improper fraction. To do this, multiply the whole number (6) by the denominator (3) and add the numerator (2). The result is the numerator of the improper fraction. The denominator remains the same. So, the father's height in improper fraction format is (6 * 3 + 2) / 3 = 20/3 feet.
2. Multiply the father's height (20/3 feet) by 1/4 (the fraction representing the son's height ratio) to get the son's height. To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators and multiply the denominators separately. So, (20/3) * (1/4) = (20 * 1) / (3 * 4) = 20/12 feet.
3. Simplify the resulting fraction. The numerator (20) is divisible by 4, and the denominator (12) is divisible by 4 as well. So, dividing both the numerator and denominator by 4 gives the simplified fraction of 5/3 feet.
Therefore, the son is 5/3 feet tall or approximately 1.67 feet tall.