How do you simplify $\frac { 5( 1- 4) } { 1- 8}$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-10-17T01:05:44

The answer is $15/7$ .

Simplify within parentheses.

$5(-3)/(1-8)$

Simplify the denominator.

$(5(-3))/-7$

Simplify the numerator.

$-15/-7$

Cancel divide the fraction by $-1$ .

The answer is $15/7$ .

Answer 2 · 2017-10-17T01:05:47

Simplification.

You can subtract $4$ from $1$ to get $-3$

$(5(-3))/(1-8)$

Then you can subtract $8$ from $1$ to get $-7$

$(5(-3))/-7$

Then multiply $5$ and $-3$ to get $-15$

$(-15)/-7$

since both the numerator and the denominator have a negative sign, we can cancel it out

$15/7$

There's your fractional answer. if you need a decimal answer just do some long division, and your answer should be $2.bar(142857)$ .

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