8/16 - 2/8
need common denominator and, fortunately, 16 looks good. Use form of 1 to rationalize.
8/16 - 2*2/2*8
8/16 - 4/16
= 4/16
which is reduced to
1/4
Expressed in its simplest form, 5 3/16 - 2 3/8 = 2 13/16 or two and thirteen sixteenths.
two eighths, four sixteenths, eight thirty-secondths, sixteen one hundred twenty-eighths, etc.........:)
sven sixteenths
Five and five-eighths
Twenty-two sixteenths has the same value as eleven eighths.
Oh, dude, math time! So, there are 16 sixteenths in a whole, right? And we want to know how many 8 eighths are in 5 sixteenths. Well, 5 sixteenths is like 10 eighths, because you double the number of eighths to get the equivalent in sixteenths. So, there are 10 eighths in 5 sixteenths. Math is fun, right?
Four minus two and three-eighths equals one and five-eighths.
15/16
30 eighths
To subtract one quarter from seven eighths, first convert one quarter to eighths. One quarter is equal to two eighths. Therefore, seven eighths minus two eighths equals five eighths. So, seven eighths minus one quarter equals five eighths.
four eighths, which simplifies to one half.
Two and three-eighths