How do you simplify $\frac{- 8 + 5}{8 - 5}$ $(-8+5 )/ (8-5)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-11-03T00:47:59

$\frac{- 3}{3} = - 1$ $(-3)/(3)=-1$

What the equation really looks like is $\frac{(- 8 + 5)}{(8 - 5)}$ $((-8+5))/((8-5))$

Lets start with adding the numbers in the numerator together because we need to get rid of parenthesis first.

Numerator: $(- 8) + (5) = - 3$ $(-8)+(5)=-3$
Denominator: $(8) - (5) = 3$ $(8)-(5)=3$

Now we can divide.
We get $\frac{- 3}{3}$ $(-3)/3$ which can be simplified to -1

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