Question

carmen recovered 2 gold bars that were stolen from a safe. the first bar weighed 2 2\5 pounds. the second bar weighed 1 2\3 times as much as the first bar. find out how much gold was recovered.

Answer 1

What you do is 2 2/5 times 1 2/3
Change them to improper fractions will be:
12/5 Times 5/3

You will get:
60/15

That would make you :
4 pounds if you simplify it


She recovered 4 pounds of gold!