SOLUTION: Add -3/5 + (8/35) could someone please help me with this one. I do not understand how too add when there is a subtraction sign also and the long parenthesis, what are tho

Question 116659:

Add -3/5 + (8/35)
could someone please help me with this one. I do not understand how too add when there is a subtraction sign also and the long parenthesis, what are those? What do they mean?
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
-3/5+8/35 find a common denominator. 35 looks like a good one.
(-3*7+8)/35
(-21+8)/35
-13/35 answer.

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