SOLUTION: What is: six and four fifths * two and one half divided by two and three eighths?

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Question 339967: What is: six and four fifths * two and one half divided by two and three eighths?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(8909) About Me  (Show Source):
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six and four fifths * two and one half divided by two and three eighths

6%264%2F5%27%27%2A%27%272%261%2F2%27%F7%272%263%2F8

Change all the mixed numbers to improper fractions:

34%2F5%27%27%2A%27%275%2F2%27%F7%2719%2F8

Invert the third fraction and change to multiplication:

34%2F5%27%27%2A%27%275%2F2%27%27%2A%27%278%2F19

Cancel the 5's

34%2Fcross%285%29%27%27%2A%27%27cross%285%29%2F2%27%27%2A%27%278%2F19

Cancel the 2 into the 34, getting 17 on top:

17
cross%2834%29%2Fcross%285%29%27%27%2A%27%27cross%285%29%2Fcross%282%29%27%27%2A%27%278%2F19

That's all the will cancel, so we have

%2817%2A8%29%2F19

136%2F19

Change to a mixed number:

7%263%2F19

Edwin