Improper fractions to mixed numbers

Difficulty Starter · Set 7uadav

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1
Write32as a mixed number.
2
Write92as a mixed number.
3
Write43as a mixed number.
4
Write32as a mixed number.
5
Write143as a mixed number.
6
Write74as a mixed number.
7
Write173as a mixed number.
8
Write236as a mixed number.
9
Write103as a mixed number.
10
Write234as a mixed number.
11
Write43as a mixed number.
12
Write112as a mixed number.
13
Write73as a mixed number.
14
Write72as a mixed number.
15
Write72as a mixed number.
16
Write83as a mixed number.
17
Write92as a mixed number.
18
Write85as a mixed number.
19
Write75as a mixed number.
20
Write115as a mixed number.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 31.
Every problem in it will cross between improper and mixed form.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 78% of the problems: the leftover was counted from the wrong end — what is left over is the remainder of the division, not what is missing from the next whole.
Answers are a mixed number, written like 2 1/3.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 51 different ones, 21% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

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