Question

Reduce to lowest terms by canceling. 3/4 times (-5/3)

Answer 1

Given the following expression:

$(\frac{3}{4})\cdot(-\frac{5}{3})$

first, notice that since we are multiplying a positive and a negative number, the result will be negative.

Then, we can multiply and commute to get the following:

$(\frac{3}{4})\cdot(-\frac{5}{3})=-(\frac{3}{4}\cdot\frac{5}{3})=-(\frac{3\cdot5}{4\cdot3})=-(\frac{3\cdot5}{3\cdot4})=-\frac{5}{4}$

thus, the simplified expression is -5/4