Question

Show your work 2 1/5 × 3 1/8

Answer 1

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)`