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I'll make up an example problem; 2 3/5 - 1 1/4. First get your terms into fraction form

2 3/5 = 13/5 and 1 1/4 = 5/4 so our problem becomes

13/5-5/4 next find the least common denominator ( in this case 20 )

52/20 - 25/20 = 27/20 then simplify

27/20 = 1 7/20

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