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Reduce your question lowest terms 5/6 - 1/2 equals

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We have the following substraction:


(5)/(6)-(1)/(2)

This fraction is equivalent to


(5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(5\cdot2-6\cdot1)/(6\cdot2)

Then, we have


\begin{gathered} (5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(10-6)/(12) \\ (5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(4)/(12) \\ (5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(1)/(3) \end{gathered}

So, the answer is 1/3

In the first part, we used the butterfly method:

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