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explain how you know that when finding a fractional part of a whole number is the same as multiplying that fraction by a whole numbver

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User Donuts
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I know that because my 8th grade math teacher taught us (in 1954)
that when you see the word "of" in a math problem, it almost always
means "times". So part of your question says "... finding a fractional
part times a whole number ...".


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