I am traveling from California to Michigan. It is 1,838 miles. It takes me 36 hours. I want to know how many miles per hour I was going. So to start out, I need to do 1,838 divided by 36. The answer is 5.2222222222.I round down to 5.22. This means I am going 5.22 m/h.

In the first lesson, I learned about how to simplify fractions and turn them into decimals. To turn a fraction into a decimal, you have to divide the top number by the bottom number and then you have the answer. You can either do long division or on a calculator. To simplify a fraction you have to divide the numerator and the denominator by the same number, and if you can’t, then it is as simplified as it can be, and if you can, you keep dividing it until you have the lowest it can get.