A basketball player is 6 2/3
feet tall. His infant son is 1/4
as tall. How tall is his son. write as a fraction
To find out how tall the son is, we need to multiply the height of the basketball player by 1/4.
Height of the son = Height of the basketball player * 1/4
Height of the son = (6 2/3 feet) * (1/4)
To multiply the fractions, we need to convert the mixed number 6 2/3 to an improper fraction.
6 2/3 = (6*3 + 2)/3 = 20/3
So, the equation becomes:
Height of the son = (20/3 feet) * (1/4)
To multiply fractions, we multiply the numerators (top numbers) and the denominators (bottom numbers):
Height of the son = 20/3 * 1/4
Multiplying the numerators gives us:
Height of the son = 20 * 1 / (3 * 4)
Height of the son = 20/12
The final height of the son, written as a fraction, is 20/12.
To find out how tall the basketball player's son is, we'll multiply the basketball player's height by the fraction representing his son's height.
Height of basketball player: 6 2/3 feet
Height of son: 1/4 times the height of the basketball player
Let's convert the mixed number 6 2/3 to an improper fraction:
6 = 6 * 3/3 = 18/3
2/3
So, the basketball player's height can be written as 18/3 + 2/3 = 20/3 feet.
Now, we can multiply the height of the basketball player by 1/4 to find the height of his son:
(20/3) * (1/4) = 20/12 = 5/3
Therefore, the son's height is 5/3 feet.