Question

How do you find 18 divided by 3/8?

Answer 1

Hint: In the given question you were asked to divide 18 with 3/8. Also, 3/8 is a proper fraction. You can write 18 multiplied with 8/3 because by inverting the factor the division becomes multiplication. After that, you will have to calculate the final answer. So let us see how we can solve this problem.

Complete Step by Step Solution:
In the given question we were asked to divide 18 with 3/8.
 $= 18 \div \dfrac{3}{8}$
We can write the above expression as
 $= 18 \times \dfrac{8}{3}$, because we can invert the fraction of the right side to change the division sign to multiplication.
After calculating the above expression, we get,
 $= 48$

Additional Information:
There are different forms of a fraction such as, Like fraction, Unlike fraction, Mixed fraction, Improper fraction, Proper fraction, and Equivalent fraction. We can determine by simply seeing the numerator and denominator.

Note:
In the above question, we inverted the fraction for which the sign of division becomes multiplication. Also, note that 3/8 is a proper fraction because its numerator is smaller than the denominator. Before inverting and changing the division sign, we need to check if the fraction is in the lowest form or not. In our problem, the fraction was already in the lowest form so we inverted the fraction and changed the sign directly.