Question

A container weighs 23 2/5 pounds holds sports equipment. Of the equipment in the container 1/3 of the weight is baseball equipment. What is the weight of the baseball equipment?

Answer 1

What we need to know is how much is 1/3 of 25 2/5.

We will be multiplying fraction by a fraction and for this, it's good to change mixed numbers into improper fractions:

25 2/5=$\frac{23*5+2}{5}= \frac{117}{5}$

and now we multiply it by 1/3:

$\frac{1}{3}\frac{117}{5}=\frac{39}{5}=7\frac{4}{5}$

and that's the answer: the basketball equipment weights 7 4/5 pounds.