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What is 5 times 1/4?

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Patrick Mather

The answer to 5 times 0.25 is 1.25

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5 x 1/4 = 5/4 or 1 1/4

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Aysha Namazi

firstly, convert the 5 into a fraction and place it over 1(so now it will be 5/1). Then, times the numerators by each other (5x1) (4x1). The answer is 5/4.

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Charlie

5 x 1/4 =

5/1 x 1/4 =

5 x 1 = 5

1 x 4 = 4

therefore

= 5/4 or 1 1/4

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When multiplying by a fraction, you should divide by the denominator and times by the numerator. In this case that would be 5 divided by 4 times by 1 which is 1.25.

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Sabah Ferdous Chowdhury Sadaf

5*1/4

basically 5/1 * 1/4

so denominator 1 is cancelled by numerator 1

which gives a remainder of 5/4

the answer is 5/4

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5*1/4

You can convert 5 to (5/1). Thus you will have (5/1)*(1/4). Multiply the numerators and denominators to derive (5*1)/(1*4)=5/4. This can further be written as 1.25.

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5/4, which is the same as 1 and 1/4

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In decimals, the answer is 1.25, or as a fraction, the answer is 1 1/4

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So 5*1/4 you will need to times 5 by the top of the fraction so 1*5 =5 so the new fraction work be 5/4 then if you divide 5 by 4 you would get 1 with a reminder of 1 which would go back on the fraction so the answer would be 1 1/4

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5 x 1/4 = 1.25. This would be the answer in a decimal format. You can think about this question as 'what is 1/4 of 5' as the multiplication sign can be considered as replacing the word 'of' here. So, half of 5 is 2.5 and half of 2.5 is 1.25 (if you half something and then half it again, it is the same as taking a quarter - think about when you cut a cake)

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The simplest way to do this would be to first convert the fraction into a decimal, to do that we need to divide the denominator by the numerator, in this case 1 divided by 4. The answer is now 0.25, now you can multiply the answer by 5, giving us 1.25 or 1 1/4.

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Daisy Holden

1/4 = 0.25

5 x 0.25 = 1.25

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When you are multiplying a whole number by a fraction, you can do the following steps:


Multiply the whole number by the top of fraction

5 x 1 = 5

Then divide your answer by the bottom of the fraction

5/4 = 5/4.


In this case 4 does not divide into 5 evenly so can leave as a fraction (unless the question says otherwise).

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Preksha Jain

The answer is 1 1/4 or 5/4

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