OK so you have 9 times 2 1/3... what your going to do is turn 2 1/3 into an improper fraction and that would turn it into 7/3. Then you would make 9 a fraction by putting 1 as the denomanitor.
SO you have 9/1 * 7/3... you mulitpy across and you would get 63/3. You can simplify that by 3 and you would get 21/1. 21/1 equals 21.
So... 9 * 2 1/3 = 21