How do you simplify #\frac{4}{5}-\frac{19}{5}-\frac{1}{3}-\frac{1}{3}#?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-07T03:46:11

#-11/3#

Solving this problem is all about finding common denominators. To do that, we need to find a number that each of those denominators can go into.

The easiest number would be #15#.

We can now make all denominators 15, but we must also multiply the numerator of each fraction by the number we used to get each denominator to #15#.

It would eventually look like this:

#((3)4)/15 - ((3)19)/15 - ((5)1)/15 - ((5)1)/15#

Now all we have to do is clean up at bit and get:

#(12-57-5-5)/15#

#-55/15#

#-11/3#