Question

show your work 2 1/5 × 3 1/8

Answer 1

Solution

For this case we can do the following:

$2\cdot\frac{1}{5}=\frac{2\cdot5+1}{5}=\frac{11}{5}$$3\cdot\frac{1}{8}=\frac{3\cdot8+1}{8}=\frac{25}{8}$

And then if we multiply we got:

$\frac{11}{5}\cdot\frac{25}{8}=\frac{55}{8}$