Solve 5/22/6

$$\frac { 5 } { 2 } \frac { 2 } { 6 }$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{5}{6}\approx 0.833333333$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{2}{6} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{5}{2}\times \frac{1}{3}$$

Multiply \frac{5}{2} times \frac{1}{3} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{5\times 1}{2\times 3}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{5\times 1}{2\times 3}.

$$\frac{5}{6}$$

Factor

$$\frac{5}{2 \cdot 3} = 0.8333333333333334$$