Subtract: 5 – 3 1⁄3 ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-28T03:26:53

$1 2/3$

Break the question up into two parts. Firstly, you are subtracting $3$ from $5$ , which has an answer of $2$ .

From that, you have the additional $1/3$ . Therefore, you subtract $1/3$ from $2$ , giving you $1.bar(6)$ or $1 2/3$ .

Answer 2 · 2018-05-28T07:29:44

$1 2/3$

$5-3 1/3$

change both fractions to improper ones, with denominator as $3$

$=15/3-10/3$

$(15-10)/3=5/3$

change back to a mixed number

$=1 2/3$

Answer 3 · 2018-07-05T23:23:00

$5/3=1 2/3$

By converting mixed numbers to fractions, we know $3 1/3$ is the same as

$10/3$ . Our expression now turns into

$5-10/3$

We can rewrite $5$ as $15/3$ to get a common denominator. We now have

$15/3-10/3$

Since we have the same denominators, we can just subtract the numerators to get

$5/3=1 2/3$

Hope this helps!