How to multiply fractions

You have two cards with a sum of -12 in both hands. a. what two cards could you have? b. you add two more cards to your hand, but the total sum if the cards remains the same, (-12).

At the beginning of 1974/75,2 years a man invested #2000 in a bank at 12.5% compound interest, if it degree #650 at the end of each two years to pay his son's school fees, after payment of interest to pay his son's school fees, how much did he have left at the beginning of the 1978/79 school year?

Which number produces an irrational number multiplied by 1/3