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Question 295092: -5/8-6/-5

Answer by unlockmath(1603) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
The key to adding or subtracting fractions is having the same denominator.
This -5/8-6/-5 we'll set up the denominator to be 40 so it will look like this:
-25/40+48/40 will give us: (hint: 2 negatives gives us a positive)
23/40
Make sense?
RJ
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