Question

What is `.2 xx 25% xx 2/5`? How do you express the answer as a decimal?

Answer 1

`0.02`

Explanation:

You can either work it out in fractions first and change to a decimal at the end, or change to decimals to begin with and work from there.

Fractions:

`1/5 xx 1/4 xx 2/5`

`= 2/100`

=`0.02`

Decimals:

`0.2 xx 0.25 xx 0.4 = 0.0200 = 0.02`