SOLUTION: how do you figure 3 1/2

SOLUTION: how do you figure 3 1/2 - 2/3

Question 888611: how do you figure 3 1/2 - 2/3
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Borrow! The is too small to remove from it, but the is big enough to give 1 over to the .

, when rewritten for common denominator;
, the borrowing from the 3.

Continue from there and then simplify.
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