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00:00 Hello . Welcome back . The title here is called
00:02 multiplying fractions by whole numbers . This is Part one
00:05 . I'm really excited to teach this lesson and I
00:08 encourage you to watch the complete lesson because it doesn't
00:11 sound like this is all that important . But actually
00:13 there's a few concepts in here that are critical number
00:16 one . We're gonna learn how to multiply fractions .
00:18 We're gonna start by taking a fraction and just multiplying
00:21 by a whole number . So we're taking a little
00:24 easier in the beginning . But we're learning how to
00:25 multiply fractions . And first we'll start by multiplying by
00:28 whole numbers . But then as we get to the
00:30 answers in the problem I'll need to introduce some new
00:32 concepts . I'll need to teach you what an improper
00:35 fraction is and how to change that into a mixed
00:38 number . And we're going to be using the models
00:40 to show you how that works . But also I'll
00:42 show you how to do it using math . So
00:44 you don't need the models either . So there's a
00:46 lot to , it's multiplying fractions . It's learning how
00:49 to change the fractions around when you simplify them .
00:51 That's a little different than what we've done before .
00:53 But I promise you by the end of this it
00:55 will make complete sense . So let's start off ,
00:57 let's say we're going to multiply a fraction now before
01:00 we start dealing with the actual multiplication . Uh The
01:03 actual mechanics . I need to tell you that multiplying
01:06 fractions . It means the same thing as everything else
01:09 . You've learned to multiply if you have two pencils
01:12 and you multiply it by three . That means two
01:15 pencils plus two more pencils , plus two more pencils
01:18 . You've multiplied by three . You've tripled the amount
01:21 of pencils , two pencils here , times three means
01:23 you triple it two plus two plus two and you
01:25 get +62 times three is six . When we multiply
01:28 fractions times a whole number . All we're doing is
01:31 taking that fraction and replicating it that many times and
01:35 then we add it all together . We're doing the
01:36 same thing that we do for whole numbers . So
01:38 for our first problem we have is our first concrete
01:41 example . We have the whole number five times two
01:46 thirds . Right ? So what we're doing is we're
01:49 saying that we have the fraction two thirds and we're
01:51 multiplying times five . I want you to think of
01:54 it as the fraction replicated five times . So two
01:58 thirds and two thirds and two thirds and two thirds
02:00 and two thirds . And we're adding all of that
02:02 together because that is what multiplication is . Okay .
02:06 Now the other thing I want to kind of get
02:07 you in the habit of is you see how we
02:09 have an X . Here , this is fine when
02:11 you're first learning math it means multiplication . But very
02:14 soon we're going to stop using X . For multiplication
02:17 because we also use X . For other things in
02:20 math . So starting now I'm going to stop writing
02:22 the X . Because it's a good habit and you're
02:25 just gonna need to get used to that . So
02:26 instead of writing it like this , I want us
02:28 to start writing it as five . And multiplication is
02:31 now written as a dot two thirds . So when
02:35 you see the dot , it means the same thing
02:36 as the X . This . Don't let this dot
02:38 scare you . I know it looks a little different
02:40 . You know if you haven't seen it before but
02:41 it just means multiplying . That's it . Now when
02:46 we multiply these things we need to realize that any
02:50 time you have a whole number then you can always
02:53 rewrite that like this . You can rewrite it as
02:56 five can be rewritten as 5/1 . And then of
03:01 course there's still multiplying by two thirds . You need
03:03 to get used to that . It's the secret to
03:04 the whole thing . Any whole number that you know
03:07 can be written as five with a fraction bar in
03:10 a one . And remember I told you in the
03:12 last lesson also that you need to start thinking about
03:14 fractions . I want you to think about the models
03:17 , but I also want you to think of them
03:18 as division fractions and division really are the same thing
03:22 . If you think about the division symbol that we've
03:24 all used right ? The division symbol looks like this
03:27 , right ? Doesn't this look like a fraction ?
03:29 It's a fraction bar with something on the top and
03:32 something on the bottom . Here's a fraction bar with
03:34 something on the top , it's something on the bottom
03:36 . So the reason you think of it as division
03:38 is because what is five divided by one ? What
03:41 is five divided by one ? Regular old division ?
03:44 Right . We know the answer to this . Anything
03:46 divided by one is just the number itself . So
03:49 when we say that five fraction bar one , It's
03:53 the same as five divided by one , which is
03:55 five . That's why we can take a whole number
03:57 and just put it over one . Because that is
04:00 what it is . A fraction is the division of
04:03 two numbers . It's just another way of writing this
04:06 division here . I know it may seem like a
04:08 new concept and it is a new concept but you
04:10 really do need to start thinking about fractions as being
04:13 the top number divided by the bottom number . It's
04:17 just that in this case we can't really take two
04:19 and divide by three because two smaller than three ,
04:23 so we just leave it as a fraction . But
04:24 here we can say five divided by one is five
04:26 . And so we can write it like this .
04:28 Now , every problem we will do like this because
04:31 let me tell you adding fractions . And subtracting fractions
04:34 is actually much harder than multiplying fractions . When you
04:37 multiply fractions all you do you do not need a
04:40 common denominator , you do not need to worry about
04:43 the denominator to multiply fractions . All you do is
04:45 multiply the numerator is together . That gives you your
04:48 answer in the numerator of your answer and then you
04:50 multiply the denominators together to get the new denominator .
04:54 So when we multiply these two fractions together , it
04:57 is five times two . So I can write it
05:00 as five times two in the numerator of the answer
05:03 and one times 31 times three in the denominator of
05:06 the answer , five times two is 10 . 1
05:09 times three is three . All right . So we
05:13 have learned a few things here . We've learned that
05:16 when you have a whole number , you can always
05:18 write it as that number over one . Then we
05:20 have fraction times fraction . Always do this step .
05:23 Then you multiply the numerator is to get the numerator
05:26 of the answer . You multiply the denominators to get
05:29 the denominator of the answer . That's how we multiply
05:31 all fractions . It's just that in this case we
05:34 had a whole number . We changed it to a
05:35 fraction to be able to do this . You don't
05:37 need to mess with common denominators , you don't need
05:39 to worry about it because to multiply fractions you don't
05:41 care about that . You just multiply them . It's
05:43 actually much easier . Okay , now here's the weird
05:46 thing . The answer that we got is kind of
05:48 weird . We haven't seen a fraction that has the
05:51 top number bigger than the bottom number . So what
05:54 I want to do is show you what that actually
05:56 means In terms of a real model and then we're
05:59 going to learn how to change this and simplify it
06:01 into something . That makes a little more sense .
06:02 Because I know in the beginning you're thinking what is
06:04 10-3 me ? I'll tell you , it means if
06:07 you cut a pizza into three equal slices , you
06:10 don't have one slice or two slices , three slices
06:13 , you actually have 10 slices . But how can
06:15 you have 10 slices head of three ? How can
06:16 you let's explore how we can do that . The
06:19 original problem was five times two thirds . This is
06:23 what two thirds looks like three thirds would be an
06:26 entire pizza . This is two thirds , right ?
06:29 So we have two thirds here , But we're multiplying
06:32 this times five . So here is another two thirds
06:35 . This would be 2/3 times two he would be
06:38 another two thirds . This would be if we were
06:41 multiplying two thirds times three , looks like they're eating
06:43 each other . Right ? Like pac man , this
06:46 is another two thirds here . So this would be
06:49 if we had two thirds times four and then finally
06:52 this is what would be happening if we had two
06:54 thirds times five all we did was take the two
06:56 thirds and then we multiply it times two times three
06:59 times four times time . This is everything . We
07:02 add all of this together . This is what multiplication
07:04 is . We replicate that many times and then we
07:07 just add them together so we add them together .
07:10 So how can it be that ? We have 10
07:12 out of three . It just means that I'm slicing
07:15 the pizza into three equal slices . But I have
07:17 10 slices . 123456789 10 . When I take two
07:24 thirds and I multiply it by five I had the
07:28 pizza sliced into three equal slices . But I have
07:31 10 slices . So I have again 123456789 10 slices
07:37 . But when the pizza is cut into 3rd ,
07:40 10 slices . When the pizza is cut into thirds
07:43 I'll say it again . If the pizza is cut
07:44 into thirds , I have 10 slices . Alright ,
07:47 so don't be scared if you see the top number
07:51 bigger than the bottom , it just means that I
07:53 have more than one whole pizza because when you think
07:56 about it , when you add all this together ,
07:57 this is way more than one whole pizza . Think
07:59 about all you need is this much more to make
08:01 one pizza . But I have all of this stuff
08:03 . So this is way more than one whole pizza
08:05 . So here's the punchline when you have this thing
08:08 with a top number bigger than the bottom number .
08:11 This thing is called an improper fraction . The proper
08:20 fractions that we have used all the way up till
08:22 now have always had the top number smaller than the
08:25 bottom . This is less than one whole . If
08:27 you ever have a fraction with the top number bigger
08:30 than the bottom it's totally fine . It just means
08:32 you have more than one pizza . If the top
08:35 number and the bottom number were the same , like
08:37 if it was 3/3 , that would be three slices
08:40 out of three . That's one whole pizza . So
08:42 if the top number is ever bigger than the bottom
08:45 number , then you have more than one pizza .
08:47 If you have four out of three pieces , you
08:49 would have one whole pizza plus a little bit more
08:52 . But here we have a ton of pizza ,
08:53 we have 10 slices . You can see this is
08:55 way more than one . So this is called an
08:57 improper fraction . Now what I need to do is
09:00 we need to simplify this . We obviously we can't
09:03 divide top and bottom by the same number to simplify
09:06 it . But if you think about it , we
09:07 know we have more than one whole pizza , so
09:10 we should be able to write this thing as a
09:12 mixed number . A mixed number has a whole number
09:14 of pizzas in front plus a fractional part . Let's
09:17 see if we can figure out how to do that
09:19 . Let's think about how this works . First of
09:21 all , we're adding all these together . So let's
09:23 do this . This piece . We just kind of
09:25 like slide in there that makes one whole pizza .
09:27 This piece can be then sliding in over here ,
09:31 this makes two whole pizzas . This piece , I
09:34 can slide in right over here , this makes three
09:37 whole pizzas . And after all of that I still
09:40 have another pizza left over . So actually I had
09:43 13th , which means I had the pizza cut into
09:47 thirds . A third is just a wedge of the
09:49 pizza , but I had 10 of those 3rd .
09:51 123456789 10 . We counted them 13th , but that's
09:55 way more than one pizza . It's actually one whole
09:57 pizza , two whole pizza , three whole pizzas plus
10:00 another one third of the pizza . So actually this
10:04 answer is totally fine . I'm okay if you write
10:06 that down , but you can also write this down
10:09 as three whole pizzas um plus one third more ,
10:14 three and one third . Right . This is another
10:16 way of writing it . The mixed number is three
10:19 whole pizzas plus one third left over . But that's
10:22 exactly the same thing as having 13th because if I
10:25 undo all of these and I just count the thirds
10:28 . Here's one third , two third , 3 34
10:30 35 36 37 38 39 3rd . 13th . So
10:35 I'm counting wedges and their third and so I count
10:38 them . I have 13th . It's the same thing
10:40 as three whole pizzas Plus 1/3 . So when you
10:43 see an improper fraction , top number bigger you can
10:46 always change it to a mixed number . And later
10:49 we'll also learn how you can start with a mixed
10:51 number and change it here . These are the same
10:53 things just like you can have fractions that look different
10:57 and they mean the same thing a mixed number .
10:59 You can change it and make it look like an
11:01 improper fraction . But it means the same thing and
11:04 you can take an improper fraction and change it to
11:06 a mixed number and it means the same thing .
11:08 So we're gonna do more examples before we jump into
11:11 another example . I want to talk a little bit
11:13 more about how we go from here to here .
11:15 Here we use the models and we can see that
11:17 it's three and a third . But if we don't
11:19 have the models , what do we do ? Remember
11:21 I said you must think about fractions as division .
11:26 What if it was 10 divided by three ? Let's
11:30 go down here for a second . Let's go down
11:32 here and take a look at 10 divided by three
11:35 . So if I had 10 and divided by three
11:37 because that's what this means . 10 divided by three
11:39 . What do I have ? three times 1 is
11:41 three . That's not big enough . Three times two
11:44 is six . That's not big enough . Three times
11:46 three is nine . That's not big enough . Three
11:49 times four is 12 . That's too big . It
11:51 can't be four . It has to be three times
11:53 three . So let's go through this division . Three
11:56 times three is nine . But then I subtract and
11:58 then 10 minus one is one . So what happens
12:01 here is when I take 10 and I divide by
12:03 three it can go three whole times three whole times
12:07 . But what is left over ? The one ?
12:09 The one is left over . You just take that
12:11 one and you put it over the three and you
12:12 make it one third . So to take this improper
12:16 fraction and change it to the exact same meaning .
12:20 But looking like a mixed number , you just do
12:22 the division . You think to yourself , How many
12:24 times can this divide ? Okay three times three is
12:26 nine . That's as close as I can get .
12:27 That number goes on the front but I know that
12:29 nine and 10 only differ by one . There's one
12:32 left over . The remainder is one . So I
12:34 take the one and I put it over what I
12:36 divided by over three and that matches exactly with what
12:40 we have here . So I think at this point
12:42 it's going to be a better idea for us just
12:44 to even if you don't totally get it yet for
12:47 us . Just to move on to example number two
12:49 , because we need to see several of these for
12:50 you to really get comfortable . And we're also going
12:53 to use the models as much as we can to
12:54 get comfortable . So let's take a look at the
12:56 next example , let's say we have nine and we're
12:59 going to multiply by one third . So we're still
13:02 going to be using thirds . But now instead of
13:04 multiplying by five we're gonna be multiplying by nine .
13:07 First step nine is always going to be written as
13:11 9/1 . Always because it's division , you always just
13:14 write it divided by one And then you're still multiplying
13:17 by 1/3 . Now we know how to multiply fractions
13:20 . All we do is we simply multiply the tops
13:22 , multiply the bottoms . Okay , So what do
13:24 we have here ? Nine times one ? Is what
13:26 ? Nine ? And then one times three . Is
13:28 what ? Three ? Okay . So we get an
13:30 answer of nine thirds . Now that seems weird .
13:32 But remember in the past we actually got 10/3 and
13:36 we understand what that means . That means we cut
13:38 the pizza into three pieces but we have 10 slices
13:42 which means that we have more than one pizza here
13:45 , we still cut the pizza into three slices ,
13:47 but we have nine slices , so we have way
13:49 more than one pizza . But you need to be
13:51 thinking about this division about this improper fraction . This
13:56 is called an improper fraction . You need to think
13:58 about it as division . What is nine divided by
14:01 three ? What is nine divided by three ? You
14:03 should remember that nine divided by three is three .
14:05 So in this case , once we put our models
14:07 on the board , we should multiply this times this
14:10 and end up with exactly three whole pizzas . We
14:12 don't have any fractional part left over in the mixed
14:15 number . So like we did in the last example
14:18 , let's go ahead and see if we can figure
14:20 this out . We're multiplying nine times a third .
14:21 So here is one third and we have to multiply
14:25 , you know , have to replicate it . Uh
14:27 So I have a total of nine of them and
14:28 add them up . So there's one third times two
14:31 . Here's one third times three . Here's one third
14:33 times four . Here is one third times five .
14:38 Here's 1/3 times six . Over here is one third
14:42 time 71 3rd times eight and one third times nine
14:45 . That's what you're doing . You're taking one third
14:47 and you're multiplying it nine times and we have to
14:49 add all this stuff together and you can see right
14:51 away , it's going to be way more than one
14:53 whole pizza . So , what is it actually equal
14:56 ? All right , let's put it together like a
14:57 puzzle . This makes one whole pizza . This makes
15:00 two whole pizzas . Right ? And look at what
15:03 happens over here . This makes your third entire pizza
15:07 1233 whole pizza . So , this is how you
15:10 write it as a mixed number , but there's no
15:12 fractional part , it's like three and zero out of
15:15 three . So you don't have anything extra . But
15:17 that's exactly the same thing as nine third . So
15:20 I'm okay if you circle this one as well because
15:23 when you cut a pizza into three pieces but you
15:25 take nine of them 123456789 It's the same thing as
15:31 assembling them into three pizzas . And then of course
15:35 to go from here to here , if you have
15:37 the models , it's great if you don't just divide
15:39 them and 95 x three which is three . So
15:42 we convert . All right , let's move to the
15:46 next example . Yeah . Let's say that we're going
15:50 to multiply five and multiply it times 3/10 . So
15:56 I want you to first of all let's go ahead
15:58 and do it . Um let's go ahead and do
16:00 it using math and then we'll use the models here
16:03 . So what do we have here ? The five
16:05 ? We always the whole number . We write it
16:06 always divided by one of over one . We're still
16:09 multiplying by 3/10 . Okay , We're taking 3/10 which
16:14 is a fraction and we're replicating , multiplying it five
16:17 times and adding everything together . Okay , so we
16:19 do it this way now we multiply the tops five
16:22 times three is what ? 15 ? We multiply the
16:25 bottoms one times 10 is 10 . So we have
16:28 again , an improper fraction if we cut a pizza
16:31 into tin slices , But we actually have more than
16:34 10 slices , we have 15 slices . We have
16:37 more than one pizza . So we know that at
16:39 the end of it we're going to get something bigger
16:41 than an entire pizza . We have 15 slices out
16:44 of a pizza that was cut into 10 slices .
16:46 So we have to have more than one . So
16:48 let's go ahead and use the model to figure out
16:50 how this works . We're paying five times 3/10 ,
16:53 so here's 1/10 and here is 2/10 . Here's 3/10
16:58 . This is what 3/10 actually looks like . This
17:01 is how much of a pizza it is , but
17:02 we're multiplying at times five . So we have to
17:05 do this again , There's another 3/10 . So this
17:09 right here would be 3/10 times two . This when
17:12 we continue , the next one would be 3/10 times
17:15 three and then of course we're doing it until five
17:18 . So this is 3/10 times four And then this
17:22 is 3/10 times five . So you can see what's
17:25 going on here . We have 3/10 3 10th ,
17:28 3/10 3 10th , 3/10 . So it's times five
17:32 . Now we want to figure out how much we
17:34 have as a result . So we have the pizza
17:36 cut into 10 slices . Each pizza cut into thin
17:39 slices . How many slices do we have ? 123456789
17:44 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ,
17:46 15 slices . So when we take this and multiply
17:49 it by five . We have 15 slices even though
17:52 the Pizza was cut into 10 . That means we
17:55 have more than one pizza . So let's go ahead
17:57 and assemble it . Here , we have this going
17:59 here , they push this over here a little bit
18:02 . This guy is gonna come up and connect with
18:05 this . It's kind of fun actually , if you
18:06 have this uh and then what happens , we only
18:09 have one of these left over . So we'll slide
18:10 this guy in so we have one complete pizza ,
18:13 but we have all of this stuff left over .
18:16 So look at what we have , we have look
18:19 at this actually , you can see that it is
18:22 one whole pizza plus a half of another one .
18:25 Of course I can go get the half magnet out
18:27 and show you . But you can see that +12345
18:30 out of 10 5/10 is another half of a pizza
18:33 . So this even though it doesn't look like it
18:37 , it becomes 15 10th which is 15 , 15
18:40 , 15 little slices of 1/10 . But when we
18:43 assemble it , it actually makes one whole pizza plus
18:46 a half of another one . So how do we
18:47 get from here to there ? How do we show
18:49 it ? Rather than using a model ? Well ,
18:51 we have to treat this as division . Okay ,
18:54 what is 15 divided by 10 , Right . You
18:57 can go off to the side and write it down
18:59 but just think about it 10 times one is 10
19:02 but 10 times two is 20 so we cannot have
19:05 this , it's not even gonna go two times because
19:08 as soon as we make it uh 10 times to
19:11 we get 20 and that's actually too big . So
19:14 it's like going down here and thinking 15 divided by
19:18 10 . 10 times one is 10 , that's fine
19:20 , but 10 times two is 20 . Now you
19:22 can go through all of this , you can put
19:24 the two here , that's 20 that's too big .
19:26 So you can erase this and say well it goes
19:28 one whole time one times 10 is 10 and then
19:31 you have five left over . So all you really
19:33 need to be doing is saying how many times can
19:35 it go ? It can go only one whole time
19:37 , but one times 10 is 10 and how many
19:40 are left over five because that was the remainder here
19:43 . Five . So one times 10 is 10 ,
19:45 that left over here is five . So we put
19:47 the five and on the denominator we just keep the
19:50 10 . So it's one in 5/10 because all you're
19:53 doing is you're saying how many whole times can it
19:55 go ? And then you take the remainder , which
19:58 is five , and you put it over what you're
20:00 dividing by . So it's literally like saying How many
20:03 times can this divide one whole time ? How many
20:05 is left over five ? And you just put and
20:07 keep the 10 on the bottom ? So it's one
20:09 in five tents , but we all know that one
20:12 in five tents . We can simplify that because we
20:16 can divide top by five , bottom by five ,
20:20 which is one and one half , because five divided
20:22 by five is one , 10 divided by five is
20:25 to 1.5 , which is exactly what we have here
20:29 . Okay , So I know I'm taking my time
20:31 with the first few problems because I want you to
20:32 get the concept we will go a little faster and
20:34 I will drop the models completely . But in the
20:37 beginning it's important for you to see how these slices
20:39 can come together and make something like 1.5 , which
20:42 looks totally different than anything you started with . And
20:44 this is how it actually works . All right ,
20:48 So let's move on to the next problem here .
20:52 This will be a little bit shorter . Let's say
20:55 that we have 1/8 and we're going to multiply it
20:59 by three . Well , first of all , we're
21:01 multiplying by a whole number . So we can change
21:03 this immediately times and make it 3/1 because you can
21:08 just put it over one Next . We can multiply
21:12 the numerator one times 3 is three and eight times
21:16 one . We multiply the denominators is 8 3/8 .
21:18 Now this one actually is not an improper fraction .
21:22 The top number is smaller than the bottom . So
21:25 yes it is still represented by division but we can't
21:28 divide three divided by eight , it goes zero times
21:31 . So we can't change it to a mixed number
21:33 because the top number is already smaller . So it's
21:35 a regular fraction . So you can just circle this
21:38 . Now let's take a look and see what it
21:40 actually means . We're saying 1/8 times three . So
21:44 here's 1/8 Here's another 8th . Whoops . We take
21:48 these apart here um here's another eighth and then here's
21:53 another eighth . So we're taking 1/8 and we're multiplying
21:56 it by three . So when we add them all
21:58 together what happens ? We just get a fraction .
22:00 3/8 123 out of out of eight pieces , which
22:03 is less than one whole . So there's no mixed
22:06 number here because it doesn't even make a hole .
22:08 So we just put this over there and say that's
22:10 what it equals equals 38 So that was that one
22:12 was much much simpler . But I want to show
22:15 you these so you can get the practice , let's
22:18 move on to the next problem . Let's say we
22:20 have five times 3/4 so five can be written as
22:27 5/1 . Any whole number can be written as a
22:30 fraction over one . Multiply by 3/4 . How do
22:35 we multiply fractions ? It's simple . You just multiply
22:37 the tops , five times three is 15 and then
22:41 you multiply the bottoms one times four is four .
22:45 So what has happened here when we take three quarters
22:48 of a pizza and multiply it five times is we
22:51 get 15 slices out of when the pizza is cut
22:55 into fourths . So we have more than one whole
22:57 pizza . So let's take a look at what that
22:58 looks like . Here , we have 3/4 . There's
23:02 3/4 of a pizza times one , which is just
23:04 equal to itself . 3/4 Right ? Here's 3/4 of
23:07 a pizza times to uh here's 3/4 of a pizza
23:12 times three like this , and then 3/4 of a
23:17 pizza . Here's times number four , which comes in
23:19 down here , rotate it like this 34 times four
23:24 and then 34 times five . So we have to
23:26 do it one more time . Right ? So there's
23:29 all the pizza on the board . We have 3/4
23:31 of a pizza times five . How many slices do
23:33 we have ? I bet you can guess it's 15
23:36 123456789 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14
23:40 . 15 slices out of a pizza . That was
23:43 cut into four . That just means we have more
23:45 than one whole pizza . So let's go ahead and
23:48 try to assemble this and see what we actually get
23:50 . So here is one whole pizza . I'll take
23:53 this one up here and make another whole pizza .
23:56 I'll take this one over here and make another whole
23:58 pizza . And so what do we have ? Three
24:00 whole pizzas ? But another pizza that is in 123
24:03 3/4 . So , what we actually have is three
24:07 and 3/4 Right ? So let me write it down
24:10 here , three whole pizzas plus 3/4 of another pizza
24:14 . So we can circle . That is our final
24:15 answer . We can also circle 15 4th , 15
24:18 4th . Just means I have 15 slices when the
24:21 pizza is cut into fourths . And so that's exactly
24:24 the same thing as if I reassemble them to make
24:26 three whole pizzas plus 3/4 of another . So that's
24:30 what it looks like when we use the models three
24:32 and 3/4 makes sense . Now , how do we
24:34 go from here to here ? Just using math ,
24:36 you have to divide 15 , divided by four .
24:38 How many times will forego in here ? Well ,
24:41 four times one is four , That's not enough ,
24:43 four times two is eight . That's not enough .
24:45 Four times three is 12 . That's not enough .
24:47 Four times four is 16 , that's too big .
24:50 So we back up and say four times three is
24:52 12 . 3 whole times four times three is 12
24:56 . Okay , so 12 , What's the left over
24:58 ? The remainder ? 15 minus 12 . That's a
25:00 leftover of three . We put the three up here
25:03 and we just keep the four on the bottom .
25:04 So we change it to three and 3/4 . It
25:07 can go three whole times three left over because three
25:10 times four is 12 , 15 minus 12 is three
25:13 . Three remainder of 3/4 . Just like when we
25:16 did it here , how many times can this go
25:18 in ? Only one whole time , One times 10
25:21 is 10 . The leftover remainder is five and we
25:23 put it over the same denominator . That's how we're
25:26 going to solve all of these problems . Moving forward
25:29 . All right , let's move onto the next problem
25:32 . Let's say we have uh the fraction three Or
25:38 the whole number three times 2/3 . First thing we
25:42 do , we change this into 3/1 . Then we
25:45 still again multiply by two thirds . Now we have
25:48 to multiply the numerator and multiply the denominators three times
25:53 two is six and one times three is three .
25:57 All right , So that's the answer . We have
25:58 six on the top and three on the bottom .
26:00 Now to change it to a mixed number , we
26:02 divide six divided by three . How many times while
26:05 it goes an exact number of times it goes two
26:08 times six , divided by three is to Now the
26:11 remainder is nothing the remainder zero . So there is
26:14 no fraction here , it's just gone . So we
26:17 do the division same as we do to convert over
26:19 there . But in this case it goes in the
26:21 exact number of times . Now let's see if this
26:23 makes any sense . So what we basically said is
26:27 we have two thirds right here . So this is
26:30 two thirds , one third , two thirds . Here's
26:31 two thirds . We need to multiply it times three
26:34 . So there's one of those two thirds , Here's
26:36 two thirds times two and then I'll grab these and
26:39 say here is what it looks like when you have
26:41 two thirds times three . So how many slices do
26:44 I have ? 123456 slices . When the pizza is
26:48 cut into 3rd 6/3 . And of course if I
26:51 rearrange this to look something like this , it's exactly
26:55 equal to two whole pizzas , you do the division
26:57 and you see that it's equal to two whole pizzas
26:59 . So that's how we handle that . Alright ,
27:04 we're gonna do one more with the models and then
27:06 after that we're going to put the models away and
27:09 just solve the rest without using them . What if
27:11 we have three times 3/5 1st change the whole number
27:16 into a fraction 3/1 same way every time , times
27:20 3/5 . Now we just multiply . The numerator is
27:24 three times three is what , nine ? And then
27:26 we multiply the denominators one times five is five .
27:30 So the answer is nine fits . That means that
27:32 when we multiply all this , when the pizza is
27:34 cut into fifth , we actually have nine pieces ,
27:37 we have more than a whole pizza 5 55 out
27:40 of five would be one whole pizza . We have
27:42 nine whole pizzas . Now how do we convert this
27:45 thing to a mixed number ? What is nine divided
27:48 by five ? Well five times one is five .
27:50 So that's one time five times two is 10 .
27:52 That's too big . So this can only divide in
27:55 one whole time . That's the big number . Five
27:58 times one is five . What's the leftover ? Nine
28:00 minus five means there's a remainder of four and we
28:03 just put it over the same bottom number . So
28:06 one and 4/5 should be the mixed number way of
28:09 writing nine fits . This is correct . This is
28:12 also correct . Let's see if it makes sense from
28:15 a model point of view , we're saying , okay
28:18 , here's 1/5 2/5 . This is what 3/5 of
28:22 a pizza looks like we're gonna multiply this times three
28:26 , here's 1/5 here's 2/5 here is 3/5 . Okay
28:29 , so there's 3/5 times too . And now I
28:32 have to make it 3/5 times 33 50 times 2
28:37 , 3/5 times three altogether . How many slices do
28:40 I have ? 123456789 slices . Even though the pizzas
28:46 cut into five , it just means I have more
28:47 than one pizza . So 9/5 . That's what that
28:49 means . Now let's go ahead and try to assemble
28:52 these into entire pizzas . So this is one whole
28:55 pizza . This one goes over here and look at
28:58 what I actually have . I have one entire whole
29:02 pizza +123 4/5 4 out of five pieces of another
29:07 . So the 9/5 123456789 9/5 is the same thing
29:13 as one whole pizza plus 4/5 of another . These
29:16 represent exactly the same thing Now the next problem ,
29:20 what if I have 2/7 and I'm gonna multiply this
29:24 by three , first , change the whole number two
29:26 , a fraction . So it's 2/7 times 3/1 .
29:31 Then I multiply . The numerator is together , two
29:34 times three is what ? Six and seven times one
29:37 is seven . So I have 67 So this is
29:41 the final answer because what happens is if I take
29:44 2/7 and I replicate it and put it all together
29:47 and line them all up , it doesn't even make
29:49 one whole pizza , it makes six pieces out of
29:52 seven , which is less than one whole . So
29:54 there's no reason to convert this to a mixed number
29:57 because the top number is already smaller , it's already
30:00 a proper fraction . You only convert to mix if
30:02 you have an improper fraction in this case it's just
30:05 6/7 , which means that the the answer that we
30:09 get is already a proper fraction . So we only
30:12 have two more problems . Let me figure out where
30:15 my next problem actually is . Okay and here it
30:19 is . The next problem is what about four sevens
30:24 ? And let's multiply that times two , First take
30:27 that whole number and change it to 2/1 . Then
30:33 I multiply , the numerator is four times two is
30:35 eight and seven times one is seven . So you
30:40 see the difference here , this was six out of
30:42 seven pizzas , This is less than a whole pizza
30:44 , but this is eight out of seven pieces .
30:46 This is bigger than one whole pizza because seven out
30:49 of seven pizzas would be one hole . This is
30:52 more than that , it's one extra slice , so
30:54 it's more than a whole . So we need to
30:56 convert this to a mixed number , let's divide eight
31:00 , divided by seven . How many times can seven
31:02 go in there ? It can only go one time
31:04 because seven times 17 but seven times two is 14
31:07 , that's way too big , so it can only
31:09 go one time , seven times one is seven ,
31:11 the remainder eight minus seven , it's a remainder of
31:14 one because it only goes one time , but when
31:17 you take eight minus seven you only have a remainder
31:19 of one and then you put that over seven .
31:22 Now we can actually visualize this very easily because you
31:26 know that seven out of seven pieces would make one
31:28 whole pizza basically . But we have eight slices .
31:32 So we know that we're gonna make one whole pizza
31:35 plus one more slice , one more seventh . We're
31:38 gonna make one whole pizza plus one more slice out
31:41 of seven because we had eight slices all together .
31:45 And then we have our very last problem . Which
31:49 is what if we have uh 5/9 and we're multiplying
31:54 this by two first take the whole number and and
31:59 change it to a fraction . So you need to
32:02 have it over one like this . And then we
32:04 multiply the numerator is five times two is 10 .
32:07 And we multiply the denominators nine times one is nine
32:10 . Same thing we have now 10 pieces , but
32:13 the pizzas only cut into nine pieces . So if
32:15 it were nine out of nine pieces it would be
32:18 one whole pizza . But we have more than that
32:20 , we have more than one whole . This is
32:22 an improper fraction . So how many times can nine
32:25 divide in there ? Only one time because nine times
32:27 two is 18 , that's way too big . Nine
32:30 times one is nine , the remainder 10 minus nine
32:33 is a remainder of one and you always put it
32:35 over the same denominator . So look at what we
32:38 have here , we're saying we have a pizza cut
32:40 into nine slices but we have 10 , so we
32:42 know that nine out of nine is gonna make one
32:45 complete pizza but with one slice left over because we
32:48 have 10 slices , so we have one complete pizza
32:51 with one slice out of nine left over one and
32:54 1/9 . So I've tried my hardest to introduce things
32:59 in the way that I think is a logical kind
33:01 of easy to understand way . We had to talk
33:03 about what is a improper fraction . When the top
33:07 number's bigger than the bottom , we had to talk
33:09 about , what does it mean to multiply a fraction
33:11 times a whole number . You just replicate and add
33:12 , that's all you're doing okay . And that sometimes
33:15 we can change that always . We can change that
33:17 improper fraction to a mixed number because when we take
33:20 all the pieces and put them all together , they
33:22 make holes and fractional that we can then count up
33:27 and so on . And then we also taught you
33:29 how to do it by using a model but also
33:31 how to do it using just math . You do
33:34 the division . How many times does it go ?
33:36 Okay that many times And then what is left over
33:38 ? One was left over and you put it over
33:40 the same denominator . How many times does this go
33:43 ? It went one whole time . What was the
33:45 remainder ? 10 minus nine ? Was one over the
33:47 same number . How many times did this go ?
33:49 It only went one time . One times 10 was
33:51 10 , the remainder was five . You write it
33:54 over the same denominator . How many times does this
33:56 divide in three whole time ? So you didn't have
33:58 any fractional left over ? How many times did this
34:01 ? One divide ? Four times three was 12 .
34:05 The remain till three was here , so the remainder
34:07 was three because 15 minus 12 is three . And
34:10 you write it over the same denominators . So I
34:12 wanted to give you enough so that you understand .
34:14 I'd like you to solve these yourself and then when
34:17 you're getting comfortable , follow me on to the next
34:18 lesson , this is so important . We're going to
34:20 actually get a little more practice with it in the
34:22 next lesson . Multiplying fractions by whole numbers .
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