Question

How do you simplify `\frac{4}{5}-\frac{19}{5}`?

Answer 1

`-2 4/5`

Explanation:

You can just subtract as normal because the denominators are already the same.

Notice that you will get a negative answer.

`4/5 -19/5`

=`(5-19)/5`

=`-14/5`

=`-2 4/5`