First, you need to make the denominators the same. When you multiply 6 with 4 you get 24, and if you multiply 8 with 3 you get 24. Then you have to multiply the numbers you multiplied with the denominators with the numerator. So, 5 x 4 is 20 and 3 x 1 is 3. Once you put all the numbers together it should look like this: 3 20/24 and 9 3/24. In order to find the answer, you have to subtract the numbers from each other. Which would look like this: 9 3/24 - 3 20/24. But as you can see you can't subtract 3 from 20. So you have to carry the 9. This means you have to subtract 9 from 1, and then you have 27 for the numerator, this then makes it possible to subtract from 20. So then the fractions subtracted from each other is 7 and the whole numbers subtracted from each other is 5 (because the 9 is now 8 since we subtracted one from it). Whole numbers subtracted from each other: 5. Fractions subtracted from each other: 7/24. Add it together you get 5 7/24.
Numerator - the number above the fraction, ex 3 in 3/4
Denominator - the number below the fraction, ex 4 in 3/4
