Question

I am very confused lol... So I'm doing a worksheet for Algebra 1 (highschool) and we're doing division and multiplication with fractions at the moment to review what we learned last year and I'm stuck. Right now I'm doing #1 and ended up getting 7 1\2... so I ended up doing this as my equation..


`3 (3)/(4) / (1)/(2)`I have no idea if I'm supposed to do division with this but I tried division and multiplication and got 7 1\2 Everytime I did it. And I know the answer is 1 7/8 cause I may have found a cheat sheet online but I still need to know how to do it. Anyways this is what I did:

`3 (3)/(4) / (1)/(2)`

`(15)/(4) * (2)/(1) = (30)/(4)`

`(30)/(4) = (15)/(2) = 7 (1)/(2)`
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong lol.

Answer 1

OK first change 3 3/4 to an improper fraction and that will give you 15/4. so you got that part right. Next, change the division sign to multiplication. then flip the 1/2 to 2/1. Then multiply 15 times 2 and that will give you 30. Then multiply 4 times 1 and that will give you 4. then you will have an answer of 30/4. Finally, since you a have a big number over a small number you divide 30 by 4 and that will give you 7 1/2. So it turns out that your little cheat sheet is wrong because when you check your answer you should go on Math-way to check it. Also, a little background about me is that I am in 8th grade and I am taking algebra 1 too.