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What is 5 times 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 times a 1/4 is 5/4 or 1.25

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So you would need to times 5( which is the same as 5/1) with the fraction 1/4, to multiply fractions, you need to multiply both numerators and denominators. So that would be, (5*1)/(1*4) which is 5/4 or in mixed fractions, a whole and a quarter.

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

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

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Gideon Effiong

1/4 can be equally expressed as 0.25.

5x0.25 equals 1.25

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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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Patrick Mather

The answer to 5 times 0.25 is 1.25

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Frederick William Jenkins

The answer is 5/4, think of 5 as 5/1. Times the 5 by the 1 and the 1 by the 4. This will provide the fraction 1/4.

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the answer is 5/4, which is the same as 1.25

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Boitshepo

1. 25 which is similar to 1and 1/4

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Georgian Erondu

5 x 1/4 = 5/4

which can be 1 1/4 in fraction

or 1.25 in decimal.

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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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5 x 1/4

= 5/1 x 1/4

= (5x1) / (4x1)

= 5/4

= 1 1/4

= 1.25

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