Question

What is -2 1/2 divided by 6 ?

Answer 1

do you know where to begin?

Answer 2

No! I'm so lost

Answer 3

okay. there are more than one way to do this. the easiest would be to convert -2 1/2 to a decimal.

Answer 4

which is -2.5

Answer 5

you could do long division and just disregard the negative for the moment.

Answer 6

2.4?

Answer 7

does that make sense? and of course it would be negative.

Answer 8

Yeah! For some reason I did it the opposite??

Answer 9

-2 1/6 is the answer?

Answer 10

it's okay :) and -5/12 is your answer, actually. how did you get -2 1/6?