How do you simplify $(2 2/9)/ (3 1/3)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-17T14:37:42

The final answer will be $2/3$ . The method used to get there is shown below...

First, you must change both into improper fractions

$2 2/9 = 20/9$

$3 1/3 = 10/3$

Now, when we divide by a fraction it is the same as multiplying by the reciprocal of that fraction, so

$20/9-:10/3=20/9 xx 3/10$

Multiply the two numerators to get the numerator of the answer, then do the same with the two denominators:

$(20xx3)/(9xx10)=60/90$ which can be simplified to $2/3$ by dividing both values by 30.

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