1/4 = 4/16 - multiply top and bottom by 4. Now both numbers are 16ths so just subtract 4 from 7 and the answer is 3, (3/16)
I think your calculation must be 7/16 minus 1/4 because you can't subtract 7 from 4.
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one sixteenth
7/8 = 14/16, so there are fourteen sixteenths in seven eighths.
seven sixteenths
Seven sixteenths. You invert, then multiply, to divide fractions.
Expressed in its simplest form, 5 3/16 - 2 3/8 = 2 13/16 or two and thirteen sixteenths.