Question

Reduce to lowest terms by canceling. 3/4 times (-5/3)

Answer 1

Given the following expression:

`((3)/(4))\cdot(-(5)/(3))`

first, notice that since we are multiplying a positive and a negative number, the result will be negative.

Then, we can multiply and commute to get the following:

`((3)/(4))\cdot(-(5)/(3))=-((3)/(4)\cdot(5)/(3))=-((3\cdot5)/(4\cdot3))=-((3\cdot5)/(3\cdot4))=-(5)/(4)`

thus, the simplified expression is -5/4