Question

How do you simplify `5/9 - 2/5`?

Answer 1

`7/45`

Explanation:

As we know, when adding or subtracting fractions, we must have like denominators. We can multiply the first by `5/5` and the second by `9/9` to get a denominator of `45`. We now have

`25/45-18/45`

Now that our denominators are like, we can just subtract the numerators to get

`7/45`

Hope this helps!