What does 1 1/3 x 5 Equal?

Question

my computer keeps telling me the wrong anwer. What do you say?

My computer keeps telling me the answer is 3 2/3........why? I don't know.

Answer 1

The KEY to handling this is to first convert the mixed fraction 1 1/3 to an improper, and then do the multiplication.

To convert a mixed to improper, you simply multiply the whole number by the denominator, and then add the numerator. so 1 1/3 would become 4/3.

So now we have 4/3 x 5. To multiply, you simply multiply the two numerators together and put that over the product (multiplication) of the denominators.

Well the whole number 5 is the fraction 5/1, so we have 4/3 x 5/1, which gives us 20/3 as a fraction or roughly 6.67 as a decimal.

Answer 2

What does you computer say?

Right answer is: 4/3 X 5 = 20/3 = 6 2/3

Answer 3

First take 1 1/3 and convert it to an improper fraction

1 1/3 = 4/3

Multiplying 3 times 1 and adding 1 equals 4/3

4/3(5) = 20/3 =

multiplying 4 times five

20/3 = 6 2/3

or

6.666666667

6.7 rounded up to one decimal place

Answer 4

You're probably putting it in your calculator wrong (1 1/3 would be read 11/3's in a caclulator). 1 1/3 would be 4/3 so, 4/3 x 5 would be 20/3 or 6 2/3.

Answer 5

I say 6 2/3

Answer 6

just mulitply the fractions together

Answer 7

6.6666665