## anonymous one year ago What is the sum? 7/3+(-3/8) ((The subtraction symbol is supposed to be for the entirety of 3/8, not just 3, to clarify. The two answers below, C and D, are negative fractions as well)) A. 65/24 B. 47/24 C. -4/5 D. -5/4

1. anonymous

$\large \frac{7}{3}~+~(-\frac{3}{8})~?$

2. anonymous

That is what it looks like right?

3. anonymous

Yup, that's the one. How on earth do you- oh is that on the "equation" tab at the bottom? Ahhaha... I'm slow. Yes that's what I mean.

4. anonymous

Nah, I wrote it out using latex.

5. anonymous

what's what?

6. anonymous

But anyways, $\large +(-x)~=~-x$ so $\large +(-\frac{3}{8})~=~-\frac{3}{8}$ and btw, if you want to learn latex check out http://openstudy.com/study#/groups/LaTeX%20Practicing!%20%3A)

7. anonymous

I.. Still don't quite understand this. I will learn this latex business though.

8. anonymous

What I'm trying to say is $\large (\frac{7}{3}~+~(-\frac{3}{8}))~=~(\frac{7}{3}~-~\frac{3}{8})$

9. anonymous

So the next step is to get the a common denominator. Know how to do that?

10. anonymous

Oh yeah, I can do that. But with this problem it's kinda difficult for me and I don't know how to apply it.

11. anonymous

nevermind I got it it's 47/24