Question

Reduce your question lowest terms 5/6 - 1/2 equals

Answer 1

We have the following substraction:

`(5)/(6)-(1)/(2)`

This fraction is equivalent to

`(5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(5\cdot2-6\cdot1)/(6\cdot2)`

Then, we have

`\begin{gathered} (5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(10-6)/(12) \\ (5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(4)/(12) \\ (5)/(6)-(1)/(2)=(1)/(3) \end{gathered}`

So, the answer is 1/3

In the first part, we used the butterfly method: