How do write in simplest form given $1/2-1/3$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-27T10:09:53

We first have to make the denominators equal before anything else.

We can multiply each fraction by $1$ without consequence, where the $1$ is written as $3/3$ and $2/2$ respectively:
$=1/2*3/3-1/3*2/2$

$=(1*3)/(2*3)-(1*2)/(3*2)$

$=3/6-2/6=(3-2)/6=1/6$

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