How do you simplify $5/6 - 2/6$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-03T22:54:04

$1/2$

Said in words will make the answer obvious.

" five sixths minus two sixths leaves three sixths"

The denominators are already the same so we can just subtract the numerators.

You can also write it as $(5-2)/6 = 3/6$

Simplify to $1/2$

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