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What is 3/8 - 1/4 equal to

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Answer: -1/8

Explanation:

Our task is to subtract these fractions:


\cfrac{3}{8}-\cfrac{1}{4}

The first thing we should notice is that their denominators are not the same. So to make them the same, we need to find the lcm of 8 and 4, which is 8.

Now, we don't need to do anything to the first fraction; as for the second one, we multiply its denominator by 2 to get to 8 :


\cfrac{3}{8}-\cfrac{1}{4*2}

We do the same thing to the numerator:


\cfrac{3}{8}-\cfrac{4}{8}

Now we just subtract the numerators:


-\cfrac{1}{8}

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its should be 1/8 bc 1/4 = 2/8 so you would only have 1/8 left
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