How do you make an improper fraction a proper fraction 63/16?
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"Proper fraction": "A Proper Fraction has a top number
less than its bottom number" (https://www.mathsisfun.com/proper-fractions.html). In other words, a proper fraction is a fraction between 0 and 1.
"Improper fraction": "An Improper Fraction has a top number larger than (or equal to) the bottom number." (https://www.mathsisfun.com/improper-fractions.html) Your fraction #63/16" is an example of an improper fraction.
So what do we call a number like
I mention this since the proper terminology helps the communication and avoids misunderstadnings.