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A student multiplied two mixed fractions in the following manner:

What error the student has done?

The student multiplication was:-


=


= (3 × 2)


= 6() =


The actual multiplication is :-


We have to 1st open full term only then we have to multiply


=


=


=


=


∴ The student error was multiplying terms simply with opening the complete terms.


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