Solve (45/49)*(48/18)

$$( \frac { 45 } { 49 } ) \cdot ( \frac { 48 } { 18 } )$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{120}{49}\approx 2.448979592$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{48}{18} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 6.

$$\frac{45}{49}\times \frac{8}{3}$$

Multiply \frac{45}{49} times \frac{8}{3} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{45\times 8}{49\times 3}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{45\times 8}{49\times 3}.

$$\frac{360}{147}$$

Reduce the fraction \frac{360}{147} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 3.

$$\frac{120}{49}$$

Factor

$$\frac{2 ^ {3} \cdot 3 \cdot 5}{7 ^ {2}} = 2\frac{22}{49} = 2.4489795918367347$$