Question

How do you simplify `\frac{5}{9}\times -26`?

Answer 1

The are a couple of approaches below depending on what you mean by "simplify"

Explanation:

First, we can rewrite and evaluate the expression as:

`5/9 xx (-26)/1 = (5 xx -26)/(9 xx 1) = -130/9`

We can also convert this into a mixed number:

`-130/9 = -(126 + 4)/9 = -(126/9 + 4/9) = -(14 + 4/9) = -14 4/9`