What is the difference between denominator and numerator? 

What is the difference between denominator and numerator?  Why do you need to know the difference between the two? 

What is the difference between denominator and numerator? 

Answer 1: Denominator is when we have a fraction, this will be the number at the bottom, and the numerator is the number at the top of the fraction. An example of that is 3/5. In this case numerator is 3 and denominator is 5. Basically the lower number is what divides the top number. It is important to know the difference because if they are put the other way around, the result will be com

Answer 2: In any fraction, numerator is the top number and the denominator is the bottom one. Example can be 5/4 or 1/6

The denominator divides the numerator. We need to know this because if we write it wrong, the result will change.