Exercise 32 Page 65

We want to write the given decimal number as a mixed number. - 1.64We will first write it as an improper fraction. To make this easier, we can keep in mind that this number can be read as - 164 hundredths. Therefore, we can write it as a fraction with a numerator of - 164 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!