SOLUTION: What's 3 and a third * 5/9?

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Question 1210353: What's 3 and a third * 5/9?
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, AnlytcPhil:
Answer by MathLover1(20849)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

and a third multiplied by
first write 3 and a third as a fraction:
now multiply by :
Answer by AnlytcPhil(1806)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since you started with a mixed number , multiplied by a common
fraction , your answer should not be left as an improper fraction.



Change the mixed number to an improper fraction.

 or  



That is an improper fraction because the numerator 10 is not less than the
denominator 3.

Then you have:

, which is also an improper fraction.

Now change that improper fraction to a mixed number by division:

    1
27)50 
   27
   23

Then the answer is of the form 

 or



Edwin
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