Calculator subtracting mixed number and fraction
This calculator performs basic and advanced operations with mixed numbers, fractions, integers, and decimals. Mixed numbers are also called mixed fractions. A mixed number is a whole number and a proper fraction combined, i.e. one and three-quarters. The calculator evaluates the expression or solves the equation with step-by-step calculation progress information. Solve problems with two or more mixed numbers fractions in one expression.
1 3/5 - 5/6 = 23/30 ≅ 0.7666667
Spelled result in words is twenty-three thirtieths.Calculation steps
- Conversion a mixed number 1 3/5 to a improper fraction: 1 3/5 = 1 3/5 = 1 · 5 + 3/5 = 5 + 3/5 = 8/5
To find a new numerator:
a) Multiply the whole number 1 by the denominator 5. Whole number 1 equally 1 * 5/5 = 5/5
b) Add the answer from the previous step 5 to the numerator 3. New numerator is 5 + 3 = 8
c) Write a previous answer (new numerator 8) over the denominator 5.
One and three fifths is eight fifths. - Subtract: 8/5 - 5/6 = 8 · 6/5 · 6 - 5 · 5/6 · 5 = 48/30 - 25/30 = 48 - 25/30 = 23/30
It is suitable to adjust both fractions to a common (equal, identical) denominator for adding, subtracting, and comparing fractions. The common denominator you can calculate as the least common multiple of both denominators - LCM(5, 6) = 30. It is enough to find the common denominator (not necessarily the lowest) by multiplying the denominators: 5 × 6 = 30. In the following intermediate step, it cannot further simplify the fraction result by canceling.
In other words - eight fifths minus five sixths is twenty-three thirtieths.
What is a mixed number?
A mixed number is an integer and fraction acb whose value equals the sum of that integer and fraction. For example, we write two and four-fifths as 254. Its value is 254=2+54=510+54=514. The mixed number is the exception - the missing operand between a whole number and a fraction is not multiplication but an addition: 254=2⋅ 54. A negative mixed number - the minus sign also applies to the fractional −254=−(254)=−(2+54)=−514. A mixed number is sometimes called a mixed fraction. Usually, a mixed number contains a natural number and a proper fraction, and its value is an improper fraction, that is, one where the numerator is greater than the denominator.How do I imagine a mixed number?
We can imagine mixed numbers in the example of cakes. We have three cakes, and we have divided each into five parts. We thus obtained 3 * 5 = 15 pieces of cake. One piece when we ate, there were 14 pieces left, which is 254 of cake. When we eat two pieces, 253 of the cake remains.Mixed number in word problems:
- Peter's calculation
Peter wrote the following: 7 1/4 - 3 3/4 = 4 2/4 = 4 1/2 . Is Peter's calculation correct? Using words (math vocabulary) and numbers to explain why he is correct or incorrect.
- Mendy
Mendy needs 3 1/2 cups of sugar to make a cake. She only has 1 5/8 cups. How many more cups of sugar does Mendy need?
- What is 28
What is the difference between seven and three-sixteenths minus four and nine-sixteenths? Write your answer in word form.
- Subtract mixed
Find the difference. Five and two-thirds minus two and one-half equals what number? A. three and one-sixth B. three and two-thirds C. three and one-half D. three and five-sixths
- How much 3
How much more is 1⅝ than 4⅚?
- Zailene 2
Zailene has 8 2/3 cups of flour. She used 5 1/2 cups of flour. How many cups of flour were left to her?
- Estimate subtraction
What's the estimate of 3 1/3 - 1 5/6?
- Subtract
Subtract two mixed numbers: 3 1/2 -1 3/4
- Difference of mixed numbers
12 1/2 - 9 1/5. What is the difference?
- Operation 6
Perform the operation below. Express your answer as a mixed number in simplest form 4 1/6 - 2 2/3
- Miguel 2
Miguel had 5/6 of a pizza, and Chris had 1 and 5/8 of a similar pizza. How much more pizza did Chris have than Miguel?
- Mario 3
Mario renames the mixed numbers to fractions greater than 1 to find 4 and 1/2 - 2 and 2/3 . Which fractions should Mario use to find the difference?
- Equation with mixed 2
A number, X, is subtracted from 8 1/4. The result is 12 3/5. What is the value of X?
- Difference mixed fractions
What is the difference between 4 2/3 and 3 1/6?
- Sum of 20
The sum of the two numbers is 15 1/6. If one of the numbers is 2 2/3, find the other number.
more math problems »