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What is -1/2 minus 3/5

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The answer would be -1 1/10 and in decimal form -1.1.

Find the LCD of both 1/2, 3/5 and that would be 10.

Make the denominators the same as the LCD

Simplify. Denominators are now the same.

Join the denominators

Simplify (11/-10)

Convert to mixed fraction ( -1 1/10)
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