Solve 5/8*2/10*4/5=

$$\frac { 5 } { 8 } \cdot \frac { 2 } { 10 } \cdot \frac { 4 } { 5 } =$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{1}{10}=0.1$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{2}{10} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{5}{8}\times \frac{1}{5}\times \frac{4}{5}$$

Multiply \frac{5}{8} times \frac{1}{5} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{5\times 1}{8\times 5}\times \frac{4}{5}$$

Cancel out 5 in both numerator and denominator.

$$\frac{1}{8}\times \frac{4}{5}$$

Multiply \frac{1}{8} times \frac{4}{5} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{1\times 4}{8\times 5}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{1\times 4}{8\times 5}.

$$\frac{4}{40}$$

Reduce the fraction \frac{4}{40} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 4.

$$\frac{1}{10}$$

Factor

$$\frac{1}{2 \cdot 5} = 0.1$$