where are fractions used in a real world?

Answer 1

EVERYWHERE you foolish kid

Answer 2

Hiya! Let's see if this old UK granddad can help a little! Fractions were so much apart of my growing up, I can't help adding them up or swapping back and forth in feet and inches to millimetres and back! That's because I worked in the construction industry all my life. Accuracy was very important! I have seen some recent American TV programmes [sorry - programs!], where a builder was working happily in feet and inches down to fractions of an inch. Hard hat, check shirt, leather tool pouch, Timberland Boots - he was measuring and swapping fractions of an inch spontaneously on the timber-frame building he was working on - no problem! In engineering, say in a factory, so many different pipe sizes and standards applied over the years. In the UK, copper pipes are specified by internal diameter. Steel water and gas pipes are by external diameter, and gas pipes were joined by a different gauge of thread from water, to avoid combining different standards of material. Refurbishing or extending existing systems is a nightmare, the older, the worse is the problem! Thread sizes on old vehicles are just as awkward in similar ways. I have five different ranges of spanners in my old tool box! I've just remembered that I used to have a circular plastic gadget that had all the different thread sizes there used to be, the scales were side-by-side on both sides and a two-sided arm that helped read across the tiny figures and fractions for "nearest fit"! Hope this helps! You can never know enough! I'm still learning stuff. Go, get those grades, young man!

Answer 3

I have a specific example. My family likes spicy pumpkin pies. Therefore we double all the spices. Since we like pie, we often make two pies. It is easiest to make all the filling at once and just pour it into the two pie crusts.
If the original recipe (for one pie) calls for 1/8 tsp of cloves, how much should we add?
It is way too monotonous to put in 1/8 4 times, can we do it all at once?
I will leave you to ponder this "mystery."

Answer 4

all over the place!

when you buy something for 25 cents, that's a fraction!

there's about a million more examples at least!

Answer 5

Specific examples include (a) in recipes, e.g. 1/4 teaspoon salt, (b) in sales and purchases, e.g. 1/2 gallon paint, size 5 1/2 shoe (c) in carpentry (d) in dressmaking, and (e) in doing math homework!

Answer 6

Everywhere
Nervously roving already beat me to the answer.

Answer 7

alot of ways woodworking, measurements on just about everything commercial and not and then last but not least your paycheck, so when you think its useless think again

Answer 8

Only in Hawaii!!!

Answer 9

EVERYWHERE!!