What is a mixed number? - Basics of Mathematics

In school, everyone has had some exposure to fractions and solving systems of equations. However, these basics are usually forgotten little by little. Therefore, we clarify the question of what a mixed number is in a nutshell.

What is a mixed number!

Many still know the calculations but the exact names of the individual number ranges from the school days no longer. So it behaves frequently also with the mixed number. The term of the mixed number meets you again and again, if you come with the fraction calculation into contact. In fractions, the individual fractions are referred to differently. The upper number in a fraction is called the numerator, and the lower number is called the denominator.

• As soon as the numerator is smaller than the denominator, it is called a true fraction.
• However, if the denominator is smaller than the numerator, the fraction is called a improper fraction.
• If the numerator is a multiple of the denominator, this can also be written as a simple natural number.
• A mixed number it is called when you write a fictitious fraction as a natural number with a fraction.
• This means with 7/6 for example, you could also write the number as 1 1/6. Bei letzterem würde es sich dann um eine gemischte Zahl handeln.
• Eine gemischte Zahl setzt sich also aus einer ganzen Zahl und einem echten Bruch zusammen. Jeder unechte Bruch lässt sich entweder als gemischte oder als natürliche Zahl darstellen.