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We're asked to identify the numerator and denominator in

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the fraction 3 over 4, or 3/4.

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So let's rewrite this just so it's nice and big.

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So let me just write the fraction.

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So we have 3 over 4, 3/4.

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Now, they want us to identify the numerator and the

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denominator.

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So the numerator is just the number on top, so the

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numerator is the 3 right there.

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And then they want us to find the denominator.

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The denominator is just the number on the bottom.

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It's the 4.

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So if they say what's the numerator?

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3.

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What's the denominator?

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It's 4, just the number on the bottom.

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They could've just called this the number on the bottom.

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They could've just called this the number on top.

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Now to think about what this represents, what this fraction

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represents, you can think of it as three out of

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four pieces of a pie.

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That's how I think about it.

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So you can imagine, the denominator tells us, what are

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we taking a fraction out of or how many pieces are there?

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So let's imagine a pie like this.

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So we could draw like a square pie.

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So this is what the denominator represents.

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This is what the number on the bottom represents.

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And then 3 says, we are representing three of those

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four pieces.

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So this 3 tells us that out of 4 possible ones, I guess you

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could think of it, we are using three, or maybe we're

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eating three.

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So you can imagine if someone says I ate three-fourths of a

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pie-- this would be read as three-fourths-- they're eating

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the blue portion of the pie if we cut it this way.

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If we imagine a round pie, it would look like this.

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Let me draw a round pie.

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So that is my round pie.

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Let me cut it into four equal pieces or

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roughly equal pieces.

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And if someone says I ate three-fourths of this pie,

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where the 3 is the numerator, and then the 4, and you'd read

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that as three-fourths, the 4 is the denominator, they would

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eat this much of the pie.

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They would eat 3 of the 4 pieces.

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So this is is one piece, this is two pieces, and this is

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three pieces.

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So you could imagine the 4, the denominator represents the

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total number of pieces in the pie, and then the 3 represents

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how many of those we ate.

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