It took you 1 hour to read 1 3/8 chapters of a novel. At this rate, how many chapters can you read in three hours?
3 * 1 3/8 = 3 * 11/8 = ?
To find out how many chapters you can read in three hours, you need to determine how many chapters you can read in one hour, and then multiply that by three.
Given that you read 1 3/8 chapters in one hour, we can convert this mixed number into an improper fraction. The whole number, 1, multiplies the denominator, 8, and then we add the numerator, 3, to get a total of 11. So, the number of chapters read in one hour is 11/8.
To find out how many chapters you can read in three hours, you need to multiply the number of chapters read in one hour (11/8) by three.
(11/8) * 3 = (11 * 3) / 8 = 33/8
Therefore, you can read 33/8 chapters in three hours.