Solve 500/18*0.01

$$\frac{ 500 }{ 18 } \times 0.01$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{5}{18}\approx 0.277777778$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{500}{18} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{250}{9}\times 0.01$$

Convert decimal number 0.01 to fraction \frac{1}{100}.

$$\frac{250}{9}\times \frac{1}{100}$$

Multiply \frac{250}{9} times \frac{1}{100} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{250\times 1}{9\times 100}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{250\times 1}{9\times 100}.

$$\frac{250}{900}$$

Reduce the fraction \frac{250}{900} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 50.

$$\frac{5}{18}$$

Factor

$$\frac{5}{2 \cdot 3 ^ {2}} = 0.2777777777777778$$