minus three quarters is -0.75
minus one and three quarters is -1.75
Though numerically 1.75 may look greater than 0.75, since sign is involved try to draw the numbers line and mark off -1.75 and -0.75 on it. Which is closer to zero? It is -0.75 and hence is greater than -1.75
Two quarters minus two thirds is negative one sixth. Two quarters is six twelfths, and two thirds is eight twelfths. Six twelfths minus eight twelfths is minus two twelfths or minus one sixth.
3 quarters is 9 twelfths, so 9 twelfths minus 3 twelfths is 6 twelfths, which is also a half.
Minus a quarter
three quarters
4/5 minus 3/4 is 1/20.
Two quarters minus two thirds is negative one sixth. Two quarters is six twelfths, and two thirds is eight twelfths. Six twelfths minus eight twelfths is minus two twelfths or minus one sixth.
1.75 or one and three quarters
3 quarters is 9 twelfths, so 9 twelfths minus 3 twelfths is 6 twelfths, which is also a half.
6/8 minus 3/4 is 0.
Minus a quarter
three quarters
Three quarters
1/8
4/5 minus 3/4 is 1/20.
It is 3/4 minus 1/3 is the same as 9/12 minus 4/12 = 5/12
Converting to twentieths it is fifteen twentieths minus sixteen twentieths, so the result is minus one twentieth.
One quarter and a half