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-11/12 - -5/12 as always please explain

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Well for starters, to negatives next to eachother make a positive. So now we rewrite the problem, -11/12 + 5/12.

Since 11/12 is bigger than 5/12, we use the bigger number’s sign which is subtraction. So 11/12 - 5/12 = 6/12.

However, you want the answer to be in simplest form. You can break down 6/12 to a smaller fraction by dividing 6 into both numbers. 6 divides by 6 is 1. And 12 divided by 6 is 2.

So your final answer is 1/2. Also known as half. I hope this helped.
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-11/12 +5/12 = - 6/12= - 1/2
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