How do you simplify (-8+5 )/ (8-5)?

1 Answer
Nov 3, 2015

(-3)/(3)=-1

Explanation:

What the equation really looks like is ((-8+5))/((8-5))

Lets start with adding the numbers in the numerator together because we need to get rid of parenthesis first.

Numerator: (-8)+(5)=-3
Denominator: (8)-(5)=3

Now we can divide.
We get (-3)/3 which can be simplified to -1