Solve 1/2*1*0.5/1*0.5(1-0.5^2)

$$\frac{ 1 }{ 2 } \times \frac{ 1 \times 0.5 }{ 1 \times 0.5 } (1- { 0.5 }^{ 2 } )$$

Evaluate

$$0.375$$

Solution Steps

Divide 1\times 0.5 by 1\times 0.5 to get 1.

$$\frac{1}{2}\times 1\left(1-0.5^{2}\right)$$

Multiply \frac{1}{2} and 1 to get \frac{1}{2}.

$$\frac{1}{2}\left(1-0.5^{2}\right)$$

Calculate 0.5 to the power of 2 and get 0.25.

$$\frac{1}{2}\left(1-0.25\right)$$

Subtract 0.25 from 1 to get 0.75.

$$\frac{1}{2}\times 0.75$$

Convert decimal number 0.75 to fraction \frac{75}{100}. Reduce the fraction \frac{75}{100} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 25.

$$\frac{1}{2}\times \frac{3}{4}$$

Multiply \frac{1}{2} times \frac{3}{4} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{1\times 3}{2\times 4}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{1\times 3}{2\times 4}.

$$\frac{3}{8}$$

Factor

$$\frac{3}{2 ^ {3}} = 0.375$$