Exercise 14 Page 63

We want to write the given decimal number as a mixed number. - 12.48We will first write it as an improper fraction. To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as - 1248 hundredths. Therefore, we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of - 1248 and with a denominator of 100. Then we can simplify the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 4.

Now we can write the newly obtained fraction as a mixed number. Let's do it!