Question

How do you solve the problem below?

Answer 1

What question

Answer 2

\[(-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-\frac{ 4 }{ 5 })-(-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-5)\]

Answer 3

Let me think

Answer 4

Do you make the denominators the same?

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

if you change the denominator you must also change the numerator

1/1 = 5/5 = 10/10

Answer 7

-5/4 - 4/5 = -2 1/20; -5/4 - 5 = -6 1/4. -2 1/20 - 6 1/4 = 3 4/5. So your answer is 3 4/5

Answer 8

Oh and to find the common denominator you need to see what both of the denominators can go into...

Answer 9

How do I do the second part, with the -5?

Answer 10

-5/4 - 5 is just like -5/4 - 5/1

Answer 11

u may also do this :-
multiply everything wid 1 : 20/20

Answer 12

Would the answer be \[\frac{ 34 }{ 20 } ?\]

Answer 13

nope

Answer 14

\(\large (-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-\frac{ 4 }{ 5 })-(-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-5)\)

\(\large \frac{20}{20} \times \left[ (-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-\frac{ 4 }{ 5 })-(-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-5) \right] \)

Answer 15

\(\large (-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-\frac{ 4 }{ 5 })-(-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-5)\)

\(\large \frac{20}{20} \times \left[ (-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-\frac{ 4 }{ 5 })-(-\frac{ 5 }{ 4 }-5) \right] \)

\(\large \frac{1}{20} \times \left[ (-\frac{20 \times 5 }{ 4 }-\frac{20 \times 4 }{ 5 })-(-\frac{20 \times 5 }{ 4 }-20 \times 5) \right] \)