Question

What is 3/8 - 1/4 equal to

Answer 1

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}`

Answer 2

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