What is #1/3 -: 2/5#?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-12T03:49:37

The result is #5/6#.

Here's a cool trick you can use when you're dividing fractions:

#a/bdivcolor(red)c/color(blue)d qquad=>qquada/bxxcolor(blue)d/color(red)c#

Let's apply this to our expression:

#color(white)=1/3divcolor(red)2/color(blue)5#

#=1/3xxcolor(blue)5/color(red)2#

#=(1xxcolor(blue)5)/(3xxcolor(red)2)#

#=color(blue)5/(3xxcolor(red)2)#

#=color(blue)5/color(red)6#

That's the answer. Hope this helped!