Question

please help me perform the operation and simplify

Answer 1

\[\frac{ 3 }{ 5 } \times \frac{ 5 }{ 7 }\]

Answer 2

Multiply the numerators (the numbers on top.)

Answer 3

Then multiply the denominators (the numbers on bottom).

Answer 4

What do you get?

Answer 5

15 and 35

Answer 6

So we have 15/35 because it's top -product over bottom-product.
Now, do 15 and 35 have a common factor?

Answer 7

yes 5

Answer 8

We can write 15 as 5 * 3 and 35 as 5 * 7.
5*3/5*7
Now we cancel the 5's:
3/7
And there's our answer!

Does that answer your question?

Answer 9

yes, thank you

Answer 10

Glad to help. :)