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The lowest common denominator of 3 and 5 is 15. Then you do the division within the parentheses. Unfortunately, the result was a number of 15ths less than 1 and not equivalent to a number of 27ths that made any sense at all.

 

You don't need to find a common denominator for fraction division.
2 1/3 becomes 7/3
7 1/5 becomes 36/5
You don't divide. You multiply the reciprocal 5/36

@Aquitaine
I have an answer, can I post it?

 

It has been an awful long time since I needed to use that. I had a feeling when I started that the process had something to do with multiplication, but that didn't seem logical.

 

I've always had to do math my own idiosyncratic way. I remember that was the rule for dividing fractions, but I can't even begin to get my head around it all if I don't get all terms over the same denominator. Maybe test takers knew they were allowed to express the answer in decimal form, an assumption I did not make, given the set up of the question. Gets you a funky repeating decimal answer, but only way I can work out to do it.

I'm still up a river trying to get from St. Louis to Chicago.

 

That one wasn't so bad. Think canal for the last miles.

 

@clutteredcloset49, if you'd like to post an answer, feel free!!!! I just didn't want anyone to feel put 'on the spot', that's all!!!!.....LIKE MEEEE!!!!! I am a MATH DUNCE!!!!! Answers coming up in the morning too!!!!

 

I'm going to feel even dumber if I'm wrong

Did anyone get 5 103/125 or 5.824 as an answer for #12

 

And here I thought the answer to that one was River Raft or Punt.

 

I stopped reading at #10.

 

OKAY.....HERE ARE THE ANSWERS....I HAD SEPARATED THEM FROM THE TEST.....JUST FOR FUN!!!! Remember, THEY had to answer with what they had to work with back in 1888!!!! Oi!!!!!

 

Hey, no harm in trying, and even braver to put it out there!!!!!

 

I need to see "the work" for #12. Still makes no sense how you reconcile 108ths and 27ths.

But I got the right answer for the water trip!!

 

So many smart people here.

 

Hmm - not sure how I mixed my work up.
I have on another piece of paper this:

7/3 x 5/36= 35/108

6 4/27 - 35/108
6 16/108 - 35/108

I'm messing up here
664/108 - 35/108 = 629/108

 

I did get 10 and 11 right
And the English

However, I failed geography and they sent me back to kindergarten. The oldest in the class.

 

Duh! My brain must have been fried yesterday. I kept thinking that 27 did not divide into 108! Of course it does!

 

At the very LEAST, I hope y'all had FUN with it, as THAT was the INTENT!!!!!

 

Your decimal form answer is correct if it is 5.82407407 repeating, but can't figure out how you ended up working with 125ths?