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

$$-( \frac{ 45 }{ 49 } ) \times ( \frac{ 48 }{ 18 } )$$

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

$$-\frac{120}{49} = -2\frac{22}{49} = -2.4489795918367347$$