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(20054) 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%22%22%2A%22%222%261%2F2%22%F7%222%263%2F8

Change all the mixed numbers to improper fractions:

34%2F5%22%22%2A%22%225%2F2%22%F7%2219%2F8

Invert the third fraction and change to multiplication:

34%2F5%22%22%2A%22%225%2F2%22%22%2A%22%228%2F19

Cancel the 5's

34%2Fcross%285%29%22%22%2A%22%22cross%285%29%2F2%22%22%2A%22%228%2F19

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

17
cross%2834%29%2Fcross%285%29%22%22%2A%22%22cross%285%29%2Fcross%282%29%22%22%2A%22%228%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