4 = 32/8
32/8 + 3/8 = 35/8
1 = 8/8
8/8 + 5/8 = 13/8
35/8 - 13/8 = 22/8 = 11/4
11/4 = 4/4 + 4/4 + 3/4
Answer: two and three quarters
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Four minus two and three-eighths equals one and five-eighths.
The answer is 2 and three eighths
To subtract fractions, find a common denominator. The common denominator of 6 and 8 is 24. Therefore, five sixths is equivalent to twenty-fours sixths, and five eighths is equivalent to twenty-four eighths. Subtracting twenty-four eighths from twenty-four sixths gives an answer of three twenty-fourths.
32/40 - 15/40 = 17/40
four eighths, which simplifies to one half.