Solve 1-3/4*40%

$$1- \frac{ 3 }{ 4 } \times 40 \%$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{7}{10}=0.7$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{40}{100} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 20.

$$1-\frac{3}{4}\times \frac{2}{5}$$

Multiply \frac{3}{4} times \frac{2}{5} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$1-\frac{3\times 2}{4\times 5}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{3\times 2}{4\times 5}.

$$1-\frac{6}{20}$$

Reduce the fraction \frac{6}{20} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$1-\frac{3}{10}$$

Convert 1 to fraction \frac{10}{10}.

$$\frac{10}{10}-\frac{3}{10}$$

Since \frac{10}{10} and \frac{3}{10} have the same denominator, subtract them by subtracting their numerators.

$$\frac{10-3}{10}$$

Subtract 3 from 10 to get 7.

$$\frac{7}{10}$$

Factor

$$\frac{7}{2 \cdot 5} = 0.7$$