Solve (10/4)(11/5)

$$( \frac { 10 } { 4 } ) ( \frac { 11 } { 5 } )$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{11}{2}=5.5$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{10}{4} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{5}{2}\times \frac{11}{5}$$

Multiply \frac{5}{2} times \frac{11}{5} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{5\times 11}{2\times 5}$$

Cancel out 5 in both numerator and denominator.

$$\frac{11}{2}$$

Factor

$$\frac{11}{2} = 5\frac{1}{2} = 5.5$$