Question

What is 5 2/5 subtract 2 1/15?

Answer 1

5 2/5 would be converted to 5 6/15. you would then subtract the numerators and the whole numbers, giving you 3 5/15, which simplifies to 3 1/5

Answer 2

The answer is: 1 and 1/3

5 2/5- 2 1/15

To get the answer, we first must make both denominations the same
(Denominators are the numbers at the bottom of the fraction)

To do this we can multiply 2/5 times 3/3 in order to have the number be equal to it’s original value.
It would now look like this:

6/15

We then just combine it to the remaining numbers. The problem should look like this:

5 6/15- 2 1/15=

3 1/3