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

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-02T23:07:36

$\frac{1}{2}$ $1/2$ is just one possible answer.

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

$\frac{1}{4} \to 0.25$ $1/4->0.25$

$\frac{3}{5} \to 0.6$ $3/5->0.6$

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

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

Here's one!

$0.5$ $0.5$ is in between $0.25$ $0.25$ and $0.6$ $0.6$

Now we just convert $0.5$ $0.5$ into a fraction and that's $\frac{1}{2}$ $1/2$ !