Question

Tracy is cleaning up after tilling a bathroom. there's are 2 open boxes of tile. each box has 5/8 of the tiles remaining.how many boxes of tiles lComplete the calculations to show how you found your answer . express your final answer in the simplest form.

Answer 1

When we multiply a fraction by a number, it is the same as multiplying the numerator by this number, therefore, our calculation can be rewritten as

`2*(5)/(8)=(2*5)/(8)=(10)/(8)=(5)/(4)=1(1)/(4)`