By: The very talented and wonderful

Mr. Graham and that dumb monkey

George
What in the heck
is a reciprocal?
Anyone? Anyone
help me?
George, It’s your cousin Clem. Yeah, it says
here a reciprocal is one of two numbers who’s
product is one. So you multiply a number by
its reciprocal and you get one. Yeah, Yeah, I
got this one, I’ll explain it since you ain’t as
smart as me.
Oh yeah, and remember a whole
number is really that number
over 1. So since 6 is really

than its reciprocal would be

 To find a reciprocal of a fraction, flip the
numerator and denominator.
 So the reciprocal of is

 The reciprocal of is

 When you multiply a number by its reciprocal

you get 1.
George, do you know why reciprocals are
important? Because in order to divide
fractions, YOU MULTIPLY BY ITS
RECIPROCAL!!!!
 Instead of dividing, multiply by the
reciprocal
1
 Reduce using butterfly method
4
 Multiply straight across and we get
 If you had to do it by hand, you would move the
decimal so that you had a whole number in the
divisor. However many places you moved the
decimal in the divisor is how many places you
would move it in the dividend.

 Since we have calculators, enter it into the

calculator and get your answer.