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Just need a little help and explanation on this one. I always mess up and get confused, which causes me to feel stressed

Just need a little help and explanation on this one. I always mess up and get confused-example-1
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first you will convert -2 1/3 to an improper fraction which will leave you with -7/3 - (-5) then you remove the parentheses which will change -7/3 - -5 to -7/3+5 since two negatives = a positive. Then make the denominators the same by multiplying 5 by 3, then you have -7+15
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then you will subtract -7+15 to get you
8/3 and then simplify the improper fraction to get the difference of 2 2/3

your final answer is 2 2/3
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