What is 1.4 of 85?

Question

2504 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-10-21T15:17:26

$117$

In $1.4 " of "85$ , the 'of' means multiply.

Think of the phrases if you are shopping:

"I'll have 4 of those, and 6 of these and half of that."

$1.4 xx 85$

The options for calculating the answer are:

long multiplication
fractions
calculator (last resort!)

I'll start with fractions...
$1.4 = 14/10$

$cancel14^7/cancel10^cancel5 xx cancel85^17/1" "larr$ cancel by 2 and then by 5

= $7 xx 17$

= $119$