Question

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

Answer 1

`-11/3`

Explanation:

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`