How do you simplify $5/8 -: 3/4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-12T06:53:27

$5/6$

Use the reciprocal rule $\ \ a/b \div c/d\ \$ $" " \Rightarrow" "$ $a/b\times d/c\ \$ , to solve the problem.

$5/8\div 3/4$

$=5/8 \times 4/3$

Cancel out the common term $4$ from the numerator and denominator to get:

$=5/2\times 1/3$

$=5/6$

That's it!

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