Not in the context of a maths question where they are obviously going to be taken as fractions because that's how you write them. I mistakenly thought you were the OP, though. I should have checked.
Can someone help me with a math (fraction) question?
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Not in the context of a maths question where they are obviously going to be taken as fractions because that's how you write them. I mistakenly thought you were the OP, though. I should have checked.
It's not really a maths question though is it? It's a data interpretation question.
It is, 2/5 is a fraction. The answer requested is a fraction.
Nope, simplifying the fraction 10/25 to 2/5 is not turning it into a ratio. 10/25 is a fraction, 2/5 is a fraction they are equivalent.
If you want to write it as a ratio then it would be 10:15 or rather 2:3
I think we need to bring back the BBC website here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/worksheet/ma19rati-l1-w-writing-ratios-as-fractions
I'm not confused!
I've answered lots of these kind of questions before, though a lot more complicated when I studied econometrics. You should try to give your answer in a format suggested or included in the question, as succinctly as possible and with as much meaning as you can. The reason being is that you might want to use the answer to help with another question.
2/5 here does not include the same amount of information as 10/25. It's less accurate. it's less accurate because it describes an abstract ratio and does not fully describe (as the question does) the full relationship between the whole numbers.
If the question dealt in fractions with the total goals a separate number, i'd be happier with 2/5, but it doesn't. It deals with whole numbers. There's no reason to give the answer as anything else. You don't simplify whole numbers.
I've answered lots of these kind of questions before, though a lot more complicated when I studied econometrics. You should try to give your answer in a format suggested or included in the question, as succinctly as possible and with as much meaning as you can. The reason being is that you might want to use the answer to help with another question.
2/5 here does not include the same amount of information as 10/25. It's less accurate. it's less accurate because it describes an abstract ratio and does not fully describe (as the question does) the full relationship between the whole numbers.
If the question dealt in fractions with the total goals a separate number, i'd be happier with 2/5, but it doesn't. It deals with whole numbers. There's no reason to give the answer as anything else. You don't simplify whole numbers.
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inogen, good troll, or I feel sorry for you
I don't think he's trolling
He's conflated ratios and fractions above and he's come up with his own conditions for answering the question.
I'm not confused - I've given an answer back here:
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32318409/
for some reason Inogen has quoted me a bunch of times to argue that I shouldn't simplify the fraction I've given as my answer
Where did you get 2/5 in the first place?
The only 2/5 fraction in this would be the fraction of gold scored by the remaining teams in the first half?
The correct answer is 10.
'cos it's not a fraction.
2/5 is a fraction, it is my answer (given the previous assumptions), I'm literally telling you it is a fraction
in words: two fifths
the question only asks for the fraction of total goals, you've made up your own conditions - if you want to make an argument that another answer is more useful etc.. then whatever... but you can't claim that an answer provided by someone else isn't correct because it doesn't meet some conditions you've made up yourself
It's correct in the same way 1/2 of 1/2 is 25%.
It's correct in the same way if I asked for how big my slice of pie is, you say 2/5.
The question does deal in fractions. The numbers are fractions and not numbers of goals. The OP is not asking you how to add 3 to 7.
No, they're not fractions.
nope, you're just making up poor analogies now
it is just simplifying a fraction that is all, quite a common thing to do when presenting an answer as a fraction (which is what was requested if you read carefully)
They are fractions regardless, there is some ambiguity from which you can perhaps assume that there are 5 goals scored in total in the first half and that would allow an answer based on that assumption.
The only answer requested is a fraction though.
Try reading the thread title again?