Sid and Jill hiked 4 1/8 miles in the morning and 1 1/7 miles in the afternoon. how many times as far did they hike in the morning than the afternoon.

Your answer is ...

First,

we have to turn our mixed fractions into an improper fraction.

=4 1/8 which is 33/8 (4 x 8 + 1).

Our next mixed fraction,

we have 1 1/7 which is 8/7 (1 x 7 + 1).

Now, we have the get the same denominator in order to subtract.

SO, both 8 and 7 goes in to 56. So we multiply both mixed fractions to get the same denominator.

(Tip: what ever you do to do numerator, you do to the denominator; and the other way around).

33/8 : 33*7=231 and our denominator, 8*7=56

So our improper fraction now,

231/56

Our next fraction 8/7,

7*8 = 56 and our numerator 8*8=64.

=64/56

So, now we subtract.

231-64 = 167 and our common denominator. 167/56

Now we divide 167 by 56 which is 2 and remainder is 55.

So, you should end up with a mixed fraction, 2 55/56.