Question

What is the difference of 5 and 2/5? Show your work.

Answer 1

`(23)/(5)` or
`4(3)/(5)`

Explanation:

The difference between 5 and 2/5 is calculated below:

`5-(2)/(5)`

Also can be written as:

`(5)/(1) -(2)/(5)`

The LCM of 1 and 5 =

This can further be simplified as:

`(25-2)/(5)`

The final result for the difference between 5 and 2/5 is:

`(23)/(5)`

Put as a Mixed Number is:

`4 (3)/(5)`

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Answer 2

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