Solve 1/17*0.78

$$\frac{ 1 }{ 17 } \times 0.78$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{39}{850}\approx 0.045882353$$

Solution Steps

Convert decimal number 0.78 to fraction \frac{78}{100}. Reduce the fraction \frac{78}{100} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{1}{17}\times \frac{39}{50}$$

Multiply \frac{1}{17} times \frac{39}{50} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{1\times 39}{17\times 50}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{1\times 39}{17\times 50}.

$$\frac{39}{850}$$

Factor

$$\frac{3 \cdot 13}{2 \cdot 17 \cdot 5 ^ {2}} = 0.04588235294117647$$