Sentences with phrase «fractions by fractions»

Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions.

Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, including reasoning strategies such as using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.

It mostly covers Module 4 which encompasses adding / subtracting fractions, multiplying fraction by whole numbers, and multiplying fractions by fractions.

Solve real - world problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a fraction, improper fraction and a mixed number.

Instead of thinking through what it means to divide a fraction by a fraction, students, especially low - income students, are often immediately taught gimmicks, such as «Yours is not to reason why, just invert and multiply» or «Keep, change, and flip.»

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The state - backed documentary «Amazing China» portrays the Huajian Group as a beneficent force spreading prosperity — in this case, by hiring thousands of Ethiopians at wages a fraction of what they'd have to pay in China.

Recently released preliminary data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners — the Census Bureau's effort to take stock of American companies every five years — show that the fraction of businesses owned by women improved substantially over the past five years.

This meant that a single promotional campaign for the mRelief app (which was supported by all the concerned agencies and city services) could get the word out at a fraction of the cost that each organization or department would have to spend — assuming they had the money to do so.

Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

According to Hurwitz, Canadian tech firms have been hobbled by receiving only a fraction of the venture capital of their American competitors.

Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

The transit method of detecting planets that Kepler scientists use involves looking for dips in a star's brightness, caused by a planet blocking a fraction of the starlight (similar to how the moon eclipses the sun).

Known as debt settlement, it's a process by which consumers stop paying unsecured creditors, wait months or even years until creditors have given up hope of collecting, then offer to settle outstanding balances for mere fractions of the amounts owing.

Palm was ultimately acquired by HP for a fraction of the value it once commanded.

That's only a fraction of Uber's $ 41 billion valuation, but Lyft generally doesn't behave like it's run by immature frat boys and it has those pink moustaches, so score another couple points for the underdog.

The Harvard paper cites a 2000 study by Bhide that finds «a substantial fraction of the Inc. 500 got their idea for their new company while working at their prior employer.»

But go by its recent boom — and a forecast by Snapchat's first investor, Jeremy Liew, that it will hit $ 500,000 by 2030 — and nabbing even a fraction of a bitcoin starts to look a lot more enticing.

In spite of prices that can be a fraction of Capital Bikeshare, dock-less company LimeBike says all it needs to make its business model work is one ride per bike per day — a mark that most functioning bike - share systems fly by.

Calima will be spending CAD$ 625 per acre to reach its 55 % stake, which is just a fraction of the CAD$ 4,400 paid by ConocoPhillips in its recent deal.

He would have had to pay taxes on any capital gains from the sale, but that sum would only be a fraction of the figure cited by Trump.

Holographic video has been held back by requirements for ultrafine screen resolutions and staggering data rates — a crisp, moving, holographic image can burn through terabytes of data in a fraction of a second.

His latest donation represents 38 % of his Microsoft holdings (his stake is now down to 1.3 % from 24 % in 1996), but it's still only a small fraction of his total wealth, estimated at over over $ 85 billion by Bloomberg.

For starters, white - labelled e-commerce solution providers like LemonStand and BlackSquare let a wide range of merchants set up online storefronts at a fraction of the time and cost required by traditional IT channels.

And there are plenty of schools where MBA debt is a mere fraction of the total load taken on by grads of elite business schools.

However, the decline in the fraction of households headed by a business owner under 30 began about 15 years earlier.

(The fraction declined to 2.9 percent by 2013).

Harping on people all day long about the behavior you want to see has a tiny fraction of the impact you achieve by demonstrating that behavior yourself.

The fraction of incoming college freshmen surveyed annually by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA who reported that «becoming successful in a business of my own» was «essential» or «very important» to them declined from 52.1 percent in 1988 to 41 percent in 2004.

After Eiffel won the bidding to design the tower, the government of France surprised him by offering only $ 300,000 for the job — a fraction of the $ 1.6 million budget he'd proposed.

By hiring remote workers, we get access to experts located all over the world, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full - time employee from an expensive city like New York or San Francisco.

The lore of the «Halo» series is loved by a fraction of that overall fanbase, and it's games like «Halo Wars» that help keep that dedicated fanbase loyal.

Much of the work the R&D team focuses on is developing meat flavor, a minor fraction of which we perceive by way of our tongues and the rest via aroma.

Harping on people all day long about the behavior you want to see has only a tiny fraction of the impact that you achieve by believing so deeply in the behavior that you demonstrate it yourself.

Revenue is a fraction of what it was during the heyday of the CD — and far from being replaced by iTunes singles, sales from downloads have fizzled, too.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

By 2012, the fraction had declined 15 percentage points, to 59 percent.

The current minimum size required for bitcoin transactions to be accepted by the Bitcoin network is 0.00000546 BTC (Bitcoin)-- much less than fractions of a penny at today's bitcoin price.

So if you just started making student loan payments, you could be paying hundreds of dollars a month only to see your balance decrease by a fraction of that amount.

Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).

As far as excess reserves are concerned, B&K argued back in 2016 (when the IOER was a mere 0.25 %), «the only potential loans that would have been affected by the Fed's payment of interest are those with risk - adjusted short - term returns between precisely zero and one - quarter percent — surely a tiny fraction of the total.»

By renting a coworking space, you have access to a professional work setup for a fraction of the cost of a traditional office.

The central bank knows that every period a fraction 1 / n of the sticky price firms will cut their prices by 5 %, and to offset this it loosens monetary policy just a little so that the flexible price firms raise their prices by (5 / n) %.

Bernier - Green was raised in Chicago and homeschooled by her mother, who taught fractions and simultaneously how to bake by following a recipe.

In the event the Company issues shares of additional stock, subject to customary exceptions, after the preferred stock original issue date without consideration or for a consideration per share less than the initial conversion price in effect immediately prior to such issuance, then and in each such event the conversion price shall be reduced to a price equal to such conversion price multiplied by the following fraction:

Google and Facebook can afford taking risks on their cash by dedicating a fraction of it to crazy ideas, but small startups can rarely afford this.

But instead of starting by creating, say, one or two production lines in Buffalo at a time, it purchased a fraction of the equipment necessary for even a single production line of Whitney panels.

If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.

Even if Keystone XL is eventually approved, it would still only provide a fraction of the pipeline capacity the energy industry will need to increase production by several million barrels a day.

By comparison, California is spending $ 70 billion on a high - speed rail project that delivers only a fraction of the speed that can be achieved by the HyperlooBy comparison, California is spending $ 70 billion on a high - speed rail project that delivers only a fraction of the speed that can be achieved by the Hyperlooby the Hyperloop.