Solve 120div4000*.7

$$120 \div 4000 \times .7$$

Evaluate

$$0.021$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{120}{4000} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 40.

$$\frac{3}{100}\times 0.7$$

Convert decimal number 0.7 to fraction \frac{7}{10}.

$$\frac{3}{100}\times \frac{7}{10}$$

Multiply \frac{3}{100} times \frac{7}{10} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{3\times 7}{100\times 10}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{3\times 7}{100\times 10}.

$$\frac{21}{1000}$$

Factor

$$\frac{3 \cdot 7}{2 ^ {3} \cdot 5 ^ {3}} = 0.021$$