Question

Plz help brain fam!

-2 1/4 ÷ ( -1 1/2) = ???

3 3/8

1 1/2

-3 3/8

-1 1/2

Answer 1

`-2 (1)/(4) :(-1 (1)/(2) )= \\ \\ = -(9)/(4) : (- (3)/(2) ) = \\ \\ = - (9)/(4) * (- (2)/(3) ) = \\ \\ = (18)/(12) = \\ \\ = (9)/(6) = \\ \\ = (3)/(2) = 1 (1)/(2)`
Obs.
(-) × (-) = +

Answer 2

What would make finding the answer a bit easier, is converting them into improper fractions. You would turn that first fraction to
`(-9)/(4)` and the second fraction to
`(-3)/(2)`. (You are dividing a negative by a negative, therefore, your answer would be a positive.

Let's follow the procedure of keeping, switching, and flipping. You keep the first improper fraction, switch the division sign to a multiplication sign, and flip the second fraction. That would make it :
`(-9)/(4)` ×
`(-2)/(3)`.

You multiply the 9 and the 2, you get 18. You multiply the 3 and the 4, you get 12. That makes it
`(18)/(12)`. This, converted to a mixed fraction, makes 1
`(6)/(12)`., which is the same as 1
`(1)/(2)`. Your answer is the SECOND CHOICE.