Okay, so, I’ve been messing around with numbers lately, and today’s little project was figuring out how to turn 748 into a mixed number. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it kinda is, but I figured I’d walk you through my process, just in case you’re curious or ever need to do something similar.
First, I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen because I’m old school like that. You could totally use a calculator or some online tool, but I like the feeling of actually writing things out. Makes me feel like a real mathematician, haha! Anyway, I started by thinking, “Okay, 748 is an improper fraction where the numerator is larger than the denominator.”
Then I thought about how many times I can divide the numerator by the denominator and get a whole number. Or you can think of it this way: how many times can I subtract the denominator from the numerator, until I get a number less than the denominator? So, for 748, the denominator is going to be 1. So we can do the math.
- 748 divided by 1 is… 748!
So we have the whole number part which is 748, and the remainder is 0. Because the remainder is 0, we don’t need to put the fraction part. So the final answer is just 748, we can just write it like this: 748.
My Result
So, there you have it. 748 as a mixed number is simply 748. It wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it was a fun little exercise. And hey, now I know how to convert any improper fraction to a mixed number, so that’s a win in my book!
I tried a few more numbers, but they got pretty boring because I was basically just dividing over and over again, no special cases. But that 748 at least needed to be shown as a mixed number! It was easy to get the answer but I wanted to really understand how the computer got to the result.
