How do you find the fraction between two fractions 1/4 and 3/5?

1 Answer
Mar 2, 2018

1/212 is just one possible answer.

Explanation:

Well we can probably better visualize this if we convert each fraction to a decimal.

1/4->0.25140.25

3/5->0.6350.6

So now we ask ourselves, what decimal(s) is in between 0.250.25 and 0.60.6?

Well, in reality there are infinitely many but that's a topic for another day. All we need is one decimal:

Here's one!

0.50.5 is in between 0.250.25 and 0.60.6

Now we just convert 0.50.5 into a fraction and that's 1/212!