1. a person or thing that obstructs. 2. the act or an instance of obstructing. 3. (Parliamentary Procedure) delay of business, esp in a legislature by means of procedural devices. 4. (General Sporting Terms) sport the act of unfairly impeding an opposing player. 5. the state or condition of being obstructed.
Mixed number. A mixed number is a whole number plus a fraction. Here are a few mixed numbers: 1 1/2 1 1/3 2 1/2 2 2/5 1 4/5 You can convert a mixed number to an improper fraction by finding the number of unit fractions in the whole number and then adding the fractional part of the whole number. This sounds hard, but it really isn't.
Any mixed number can also be written as an improper fraction, in which the numerator is larger than the denominator, as shown in the following example: Example 1 . To add mixed numbers, we first add the whole numbers together, and then the fractions. If the sum of the fractions is an improper fraction, then we change it to a mixed number. Here's an example.