How To Add Fractions And Whole Numbers

okay, now i'm going to show you how to subtractfractions from whole numbers, take this example; eight minus one-third. so i''m going to changethis to seven plus three thirds, which is the same as eight, minus one-third. so threethirds minus one-third is two-thirds. so we're left with seven and two-thirds. okay, i'llshow you another example of how to subtract a fraction from a whole number. let's takesixteen and minus four-fifths. to do that

How To Add Fractions And Whole Numbers, we must change sixteen to fifteen and fivefifths,which is the same as sixteen; minus four-fifths. now what we do here is, we take the four-fifthsand subtract it from five-fifths and then add the fifteen that we came with originally.five fifths minus four-fifths is one-fifth and that's how you subtract fractions fromwhole numbers.