Question

What is `11/3 -: 5/6`?

Answer 1

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

First, rewrite the expression as `(11/3)/(5/6)`

We can use this rule for dividing fractions to evaluate this problem:

`(color(red)(a)/color(blue)(b))/(color(green)(c)/color(purple)(d)) = (color(red)(a) xx color(purple)(d))/(color(blue)(b) xx color(green)(c))`

Substituting gives:

`(color(red)(11)/color(blue)(3))/(color(green)(5)/color(purple)(6)) => (color(red)(11) xx color(purple)(6))/(color(blue)(3) xx color(green)(5)) => (color(red)(11) xx cancel(color(purple)(6))2)/(cancel(color(blue)(3)) xx color(green)(5)) = 22/5`