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

User Wakurth
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Answer:


(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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