## snowballhockey Group Title What is 8 1/5 - 4 2/5 equal please help 2 years ago 2 years ago

1. evy15

1/5 is .20 amd 2/5 is .4

2. evy15

so use those instead of the fractions to make it easier

3. snowballhockey

No it doesn't make them into improper fraction

4. waterineyes

Do you know ?? $8\frac{1}{5} = ??$

5. snowballhockey

41/5

6. evy15

and do the same for the other

7. evy15

so its 22/5

8. snowballhockey

Then whatn

9. waterineyes

Now: $\frac{41}{5} - \frac{22}{5}$

10. Hero

8 1/5 - 4 2/5 (8 - 4) + (1/5 - 2/5) (7 - 4) + (6/5 - 2/5) 3 + 4/5

11. snowballhockey

equals 19

12. Hero

3 + 4/5 = 19/5

13. waterineyes

19 is in the numerator..

14. Hero

3 + 4/5 means 3 "and" 4/5

15. snowballhockey

then what what is the answer is it just 9

16. snowballhockey

i mean 19

17. Hero

18. snowballhockey

the waterineyes girl is eaiser to understand

19. snowballhockey

wait is it 19/5

20. snowballhockey

Someone help me

21. waterineyes

Are you sure it is 19/5??

22. waterineyes

And lastly, I am not a Girl..

23. Hero

Are you sure it isn't 19/5?

24. snowballhockey

no it 3 4/5 right

25. Hero

3 4/5 = 19/5 I already said that once.

26. Hero

@snowballhockey, do you know what the equal sign means?

27. snowballhockey

is that the answer

28. snowballhockey

and yeah so that is the correct answer

29. snowballhockey

can someone tell me the right answer

30. snowballhockey

@hero

31. Hero

The correct answer has been stated several times. I am sorry you do not understand well enough to realize that.

32. snowballhockey

ok well i gave u the best responce