Lesson 438

Mechanics - Punctuation - Slash

Use a slash (/) to separate parts of fractions.

Examples:
 2/3's (two thirds)
 1/8 (one eighth)

 
 
 

Instructions: Replace the fractions in these sentences by using numbers with the slash.

1. We only need three quarters of a yard of that material.

2. That door is three sixteenths too long to fit.

3. You only get one-half of the money.

4. She was asleep one fourth of the time when she should have been working.

5. This must be within one sixty-fourth of an inch.