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Understanding of Multiplying by a Fraction Name: Draw a number line model to represent each multiplication problem. Then solve the problem.2/3×1/2=how do you do this

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We have following:

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(2)/(3)\cdot(1)/(2)=(2\cdot1)/(3\cdot2)=(2)/(6)=(1)/(3)

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(5)/(6)\cdot(3)/(4)=(5\cdot3)/(6\cdot4)=(15)/(24)=(5)/(8)

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