What is half of 36 5/8 in fractions?

5 Answers

• Convert the number to a fraction in which the numerator is even. Halve it, and then simplify.

• 18 5/16

• I think that the difficulty would be in finding half of 5/8.

  Well, so what's half of 2/4. That's 1/4, right?

  The same can be applied to this problem. Half of 5 is 2.5. The only problem is that 2.5/8 is messy, so we double it. 2 times a fraction is 2 times both numerator and denominator, so that would make 5/16.

  Looking at that number, you'd almost think that it would be more intuitive to simply double the denominator in all cases where you're dividing a fraction by 2.

  Yep. That would be true.

• 18 5/16

• lowest common denominator, would be 16 so

  half of 36 is 18, have of 5/8 or 10/16 is 5 /16

  So,

  18 5/16 and yes, that's in inches.