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Subtract -1 3/5 ( -2 5/8 ) enter your answer as a simplified mixed number by filling in the boxes

Subtract -1 3/5 ( -2 5/8 ) enter your answer as a simplified mixed number by filling-example-1

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Answer:

The Oringal Answer is 65/8 But In a Simplified Mixed Number the Answer is 8 1/8

Explanation:

We need to get rid of parentheses in this term.

All the negative factors will change sign.

In our example, we have only one negative factor.

The sign of the term will change, since there is an odd number of negative factors.

We can reduce this fraction by dividing both numerator and denominator by a common numeric factors.

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Answer:

The answer will be:

7 2/3

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