Solve 50/12.5

$$50 / 12.5$$

Evaluate

$$\frac{25}{12}\approx 2.083333333$$

Solution Steps

Reduce the fraction \frac{50}{12} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{25}{6}\times 0.5$$

Convert decimal number 0.5 to fraction \frac{5}{10}. Reduce the fraction \frac{5}{10} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 5.

$$\frac{25}{6}\times \frac{1}{2}$$

Multiply \frac{25}{6} times \frac{1}{2} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{25\times 1}{6\times 2}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{25\times 1}{6\times 2}.

$$\frac{25}{12}$$

Factor

$$\frac{5 ^ {2}}{3 \cdot 2 ^ {2}} = 2\frac{1}{12} = 2.0833333333333335$$