Question

Someone help me with the ASAP!

Answer 1

This is a situation where a "Please" would really help.

In the picture, I see a 12 being divided by 3/5 .

I'm sure you've learned how to divide by a fraction . . . you flip the fraction upside down, and then multiply by it.

So, if you need to divide 12 by 3/5, you'll need to flip the 3/5 upside down, then multiply the 12 by 5/3 .

Are you uncomfortable because you know how to multiply two fractions, but 12 is not a fraction so there's only one fraction here ?  Is that what's troubling you, Bunky ?

What if I take the 12 and write it as  12/1 .  I haven't changed it at all, but now it looks like a fraction !  So now the problem is:  Multiply  (12/1) x (5/3) .

Multiply the two numerators to get the numerator of the product.

Numerator is  (12 x 5) = 60

Multiply the two denominators to get the denominator of the product.

Denominator is  (1 x 3) = 3

So the product is  60/3 .

You could leave it like that.  But I don't think the teacher would be happy, because  60/3  is crying out to be simplified.

It's  20 .

Answer 2

$\mathsf{Given :\;\;\dfrac{12}{\frac{3}{5}}}$

$\mathsf{:\implies 12 \times \dfrac{5}{3}}$

$\mathsf{:\implies 4 \times 5}$

$\mathsf{:\implies 20}$