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NCERT Solutions Ganita Prakash Chapter 7 In-text Questions — Mixed Fractions

Book page 161 Updated on2026-09-05

Q1.
Write down all the fractions you marked on the number line earlier. Now, let us classify these in two groups: lengths less than 1 unit, and lengths more than 1 unit.
Answer

Take all the fractions from pages 159 and 160 and sort them.

Lengths less than 1 unitLengths more than 1 unit
1/2, 2/3, 2/5, 4/5, 1/10, 3/10, 3/83/2, 6/5, 7/5, 8/5, 9/5

The blue lines of the book are all in the first column, the black lines all in the second.

Q2.
Did you notice something common between the fractions that are greater than 1?
Answer

Yes — look at the two numbers of each fraction.

  • Less than 1 unit → the numerator is smaller than the denominator (2⁄5, 3⁄8).
  • More than 1 unit → the numerator is larger than the denominator (7⁄5, 3⁄2).
  • Exactly 1 → numerator and denominator are equal (5⁄5, 8⁄8).
Why: it takes 5 fifths to make one whole. So 7⁄5 means 5 fifths (one whole) and 2 fifths more — which must be more than 1.
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