Question

Most mornings, malik swims 3/4 mile. today he had only enough time to swim 5/6 of that distance. how far did malik swim

Answer 1

ok so this is fraction multiplication: you are trying to figure out what 5/6 of 3/4 is so you set it up as:

(5*3)/(6*4)=15/24 miles,
but we can reduce by dividing both top and bottom by 3:

15/3=5 24/3=8

so the answer is 5/8 miles

Answer 2

thank you

Answer 3

np