Solve 7.200*40%=

$$7.200 \times 40 \% =$$

Evaluate

$$2.88$$

Solution Steps

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

$$7.2\times \frac{2}{5}$$

Convert decimal number 7.2 to fraction \frac{72}{10}. Reduce the fraction \frac{72}{10} to lowest terms by extracting and canceling out 2.

$$\frac{36}{5}\times \frac{2}{5}$$

Multiply \frac{36}{5} times \frac{2}{5} by multiplying numerator times numerator and denominator times denominator.

$$\frac{36\times 2}{5\times 5}$$

Do the multiplications in the fraction \frac{36\times 2}{5\times 5}.

$$\frac{72}{25}$$

Factor

$$\frac{2 ^ {3} \cdot 3 ^ {2}}{5 ^ {2}} = 2\frac{22}{25} = 2.88$$