Show your work 2 1/5 × 3 1/8

Itro asked Oct 13, 2023

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Itro asked Oct 13, 2023

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Solution

For this case we can do the following:

$2\cdot(1)/(5)=(2\cdot5+1)/(5)=(11)/(5)$
$3\cdot(1)/(8)=(3\cdot8+1)/(8)=(25)/(8)$

And then if we multiply we got:

$(11)/(5)\cdot(25)/(8)=(55)/(8)$

Erdekhayser answered Oct 20, 2023

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