Need help with this math question. Thanks for your help. Work must be shown and reduced to the lowest terms.
7/11-3/11 The directions to this question is subtract. Write the answer in lowest terms.
Thanks so much for help.
Since you have identical denominators (the numbers on the bottom of each fraction), this is a simple matter of subtracting the two numerators (the top numbers), and putting that result over the common denominator.
7 - 3 = ?
Put the answer to that over the denominator 11.
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To subtract fractions, you need a common denominator. In this case, the denominators of both fractions are the same, which is 11. To find the difference between the fractions, subtract the numerators:
(7/11) - (3/11)
= (7 - 3) / 11
= 4/11
The answer is 4/11, and since it cannot be reduced further, it is already in the lowest terms.
To subtract fractions, you need to have the same denominator. In this case, both fractions have a denominator of 11, so we can subtract them directly.
The equation becomes:
7/11 - 3/11
To subtract fractions, we only need to subtract the numerators while keeping the denominator the same. So, subtract 3 from 7:
7 - 3 = 4
Now, write the result over the common denominator 11:
4/11
Since we need to write the answer in the lowest terms, we check if the numerator and denominator have any common factors. In this case, they do not share any common factors other than 1. Therefore, the answer, reduced to the lowest terms, is:
4/11