Solve x/2x*4/40

$$\frac { x } { 2 x } \times \frac { 4 } { 40 }$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{1}{20}=0.05$$

Solution Steps

Cancel out x in both numerator and denominator.

$$\frac{1}{2}\times \frac{4}{40}$$

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

$$\frac{1}{2}\times \frac{1}{10}$$

Multiply \frac{1}{2} times \frac{1}{10} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{1\times 1}{2\times 10}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{1\times 1}{2\times 10}.

$$\frac{1}{20}$$

Factor

$$\frac{1}{2 ^ {2} \cdot 5} = 0.05$$