{"id":33,"date":"2018-03-19T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=33"},"modified":"2024-04-26T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:00:44","slug":"introduction-to-fractions","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/chapter\/introduction-to-fractions\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Fraction Calculations","rendered":"Introduction to Fraction Calculations"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2985\/2018\/03\/08185112\/asia-cagayandeoro-city-988797-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the mall entrance to a Forever 21 store with lots of people walking around in front of the store.\" width=\"601\" height=\"403\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOften we want to express a relationship between two numbers that measure different things. For example, you may want to track the number of customers who pass through your store each day. Or maybe you want to narrow that number down to customers per hour to determine the busiest time of day, so you can staff the store appropriately. These rates can all be expressed as fractions, or one measurement over another: [latex]\\frac{2253\\text{ customers}}{2\\text{ days}}[\/latex], or comparing\u00a0[latex]\\frac{88\\text{ customers}}{1\\text{ hour}}[\/latex]\u00a0 at 11am to [latex]\\frac{356\\text{ customers}}{1\\text{ hour}}[\/latex]\u00a0 at 3pm on Fridays. We can then use these numerical fractions to make further calculations or decisions.","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2985\/2018\/03\/08185112\/asia-cagayandeoro-city-988797-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"An image of the mall entrance to a Forever 21 store with lots of people walking around in front of the store.\" width=\"601\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Often we want to express a relationship between two numbers that measure different things. For example, you may want to track the number of customers who pass through your store each day. Or maybe you want to narrow that number down to customers per hour to determine the busiest time of day, so you can staff the store appropriately. These rates can all be expressed as fractions, or one measurement over another: [latex]\\frac{2253\\text{ customers}}{2\\text{ days}}[\/latex], or comparing\u00a0[latex]\\frac{88\\text{ customers}}{1\\text{ hour}}[\/latex]\u00a0 at 11am to [latex]\\frac{356\\text{ customers}}{1\\text{ hour}}[\/latex]\u00a0 at 3pm on Fridays. We can then use these numerical fractions to make further calculations or decisions.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-33\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Fraction Calculations. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Shoppers at a mall. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Joe Digital &amp; Co. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/asia-cagayandeoro-city-mall-988797\/\">https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/asia-cagayandeoro-city-mall-988797\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17533,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Shoppers at a mall\",\"author\":\"Joe Digital & Co\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/asia-cagayandeoro-city-mall-988797\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Fraction Calculations\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"1f1dd0a7-dca2-43f3-9757-33d4e41a9363","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-33","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":22,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions\/1970"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/22"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-accountingformanagers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}