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document.write( "We can't subtract because they don't have the same \r\n" );
document.write( "denominator.  The LCD of 9 and 6 is 18, because \r\n" );
document.write( "both will divide evenly into 18. So we change \r\n" );
document.write( "to  and  to \r\n" );
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document.write( "We still can't subtract because the upper fraction  \r\n" );
document.write( "has a smaller numerator than the lower fraction .\r\n" );
document.write( "So we borrow 1 from the 9, leaving it with 8, and that gives \r\n" );
document.write( "us  to add to the fraction  which just amounts \r\n" );
document.write( "to adding the denominator 18 to the numerator 10, getting 28, so \r\n" );
document.write( "we have this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "And now we can subtract because the numerator above is bigger\r\n" );
document.write( "than the numerator below. So  8 minus 6 gives 2 for the whole part\r\n" );
document.write( "of the answer, and 28-15 gives 13 for the numerator of the answer\r\n" );
document.write( "so we subtract and get:\r\n" );
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