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

1 Answer
Mar 2, 2018

12 is just one possible answer.

Explanation:

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

140.25

350.6

So now we ask ourselves, what decimal(s) is in between 0.25 and 0.6?

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

Here's one!

0.5 is in between 0.25 and 0.6

Now we just convert 0.5 into a fraction and that's 12!