Question

In the problem 5 divided 3/5 instead of dividing 5 by 3/5 we can find the answer by multiplying 5 by what number

Answer 1

5/3

Explanation:

If you do 5/ 3/5 what youre really doing is just doing two division problems which by the way equals 5/0.6 or 8.3333333

But one thing i realized when i was doing division by fractions is that if you flip the fraction then you can multiply and you get the same exact answer. SO lets try: 5/3 = 1.6666

1.6666*5=8.3333333

So you can use that trick when dividing a whole number by fractions. It makes it a lot easier.

The official answer is instead of dividing 5 by 3/5 you can instead multiply 5 by 5/3 and get the same answer!