7/10 times 4/7
7*4=28 and 10*7= 70 so 28/70.
which simplifies to .4
Are you you supposed to express your final answer as a decimal or a fraction or something else, yasmin?
To multiply two fractions, you simply multiply their numerators together and their denominators together.
For the given problem, you want to multiply 7/10 by 4/7.
So the numerator of the result will be 7 times 4, which is 28.
And the denominator of the result will be 10 times 7, which is 70.
Therefore, the result of multiplying 7/10 and 4/7 is 28/70.
But we can simplify this fraction further by dividing both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor, which is 14.
So, 28 divided by 14 is 2 and 70 divided by 14 is 5.
Hence, the simplified form of 7/10 multiplied by 4/7 is 2/5.