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Learn how to convert ratios to fractions and percentages, how to share in a given ratio, and explore ratios as fractions, with videos, activities and quizzes.

Evenson, of Rolling Meadows, says fractions are a confusing, unwieldy and imprecise system of measurement that American industry has wisely abandoned for a much better one: the decimal inch.